Question

Why did some pupils pretend to be gleeful

Answer 1

The school master who ran the village school was very strict and a staunch disciplinarian.

All of the students ere very afraid of him and they had become quite good at assessing from the expressions on his faces how the following day would be like.

Even when his jokes were bad, the children would laugh at them lest they got punished later on.

Answer 2

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