The school mistress.
A stern-looking woman holds a book in one hand and a switch behind her back in the other hand. A diminutive boy looks up at her.; Text beneath title: You teach the young ideas to shoot, / And put on quite a learned air; / But forty years ago, Miss Birch, / You were younger and more fair. / Many a man has fled in fear, / Whene'er your birchen rod did crack; / For he mistrusted you, my dear, / Might use the same upon his back.
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