Further Foolishness

Preface

Many years ago when I was a boy
at school, we had over our class an ancient and spectacled schoolmaster
who was as kind at heart as he was ferocious in appearance, and whose memory has suggested to me the title
of this book.

It was his practice, on any outburst
of gaiety in the class-room, to chase
us to our seats with a bamboo cane
and to shout at us in defiance:

   Now, then, any further foolishness?

I find by experience that there are
quite a number of indulgent readers
who are good enough to adopt the same expectant attitude towards me now.

STEPHEN LEACOCK
McGILL UNIVERSITY
MONTREAL
November 1, 1916

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