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A MOUTHFUL CANDIES

Mr Maude is a highly capable and experienced maths teacher. He has been teaching for donkey’s years, apparently since at the threshold of adulthood and that likens him a born-to-teach kind of man.

Incidentally, Mr Maude was endeared to the hearts one and sundry for his emulatable qualities such as; diligence, devotion and industry among others during the discharge of duty.

Thus, he is often referred to as ‘an ideal teacher’ and although, Mr Maude has never felt a big deal about this appellation. He relishes with utter fondness, the recognition that brings it.

As it is said, ‘good thing comes to those who wait.’ I can say, it’s come in actuality here. One gay morning of a sunny Friday.

Mr Maude wakes up to a favourable time span, where he was surprisingly welcomed to the school by an official from zonal office of Irvington District Schools with a missive which pleasantly attests to his promotion to the position of headship at the most popular school in the district; Cynosure.

To let you in on Cynosure, it’s a reputable schooling establishment which comprises of elementary and secondary sections in the district, where many a famous leaders, business moguls and politicos in Soye, were known to have studied.

And it’s described as a byword for selectivity in admission and citadel of academic excellence. Whoever happens to have become its product is regarded with respect and admiration as does to a person with a venerable portfolio in the nation.

So when Mr Maude came to the person to holds the helms of affairs in the school. He feels humblingly delighted, and on the first day of work, resolved to take a tour through the classes of the school to begin with, the Basics Base where kids’ classes situated.

Ms Hannah, a petite middle-aged woman whom he’s severally met at a couple of educational gatherings in Irvington and his newly appointed secretary now in Cynosure has announced his coming a day before.

So Mr Maude needs no profound introduction as, his name has been familiar to numerous families in the district of Irvington for the sake of chatty school children who share their daily experience with kin and kith after school.

Mr Maude enters Basics Base 1 – clad in fetching cultural attires which suits him beautifully and smiles to all of them, then suddenly Ruth shouts with a voice which died as soon as it sounded. ‘Good morning, Mr Mo!’

‘Morning moppet!’ He responds smilingly and in the same vein, to the class, ‘How are you kiddies?’ ‘Very well, thanks, Mr Mo.’ Answered the class in chorus.

Then, having created a little bit of an excitement which lasts for a minute or so, Mr Maude introduces the topics he intends to teach there as a celebratory phase in Cynosure.

‘Providing you have three candies on your right palm and three more on your left palm.’ As Mr Maude arrives at this point, the class as if sojourning in a lonely island has become quiet. Yet Ruth was alert and itching to know what Mr Mo as he is fondly called, ‘Ah, how much do you have altogether’. Asks he friendlily.

‘A mouthful candies’ Ruth breaks the silence promptly almost jumping for the reply which synchronises with all the class bursting into belly laughter.

© Adamu Lawanz 2020

Inspired by: Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Avonlea.