While I was waiting to enter univer

While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no __21__ of teaching my chances of getting the job were slight.However, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a meeting with the headmaster. It was clearly the headmaster himself __22__ open the door. He was short and round. "The school," he said, "is made up of one class of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen." I should have to teach all the subjects except art, which he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different __23__. And I was disappointed at the thought of teaching maths, a subject at which I wasn't very good at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of __24__ to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be enjoying themselves at that time.Before I had time to ask about my salary, he got up to his __25__. "Now," he said, "you'd better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.