Classroom Problems in the Education of Gifted Children

s book are as follows: British Consulate "The Refuge of an English Exile, 125 Years Ago." More than a century ago a British gentleman and soldier was banished from England, and he sought his refuge within a stone's throw of Baltimore. He was allowed to sail for these shores with the understanding of the British courts that he was to be lashed for one-half hour on a certain day of every remaining year of his life. The banished one was under careful watch of the British government, and the severe penalty imposed by the court was carried out. Although this was more than a century ago, yet two Marylanders who witnessed some of the beatings are still living. The thrashings were brutal in the extreme, yet the exile stood them unflinchingly and insisted that they be imposed, as the order of the court could not be evaded. The eye-witnesses to the 'beatings' are Thomas James McGill, eighty-six years old, 116 E. Montgomery Street, through whom the story came to light at this late day, and a colored servant, Marguerite Riley, 90 years old, who lives within a shadow of where her master, the exile, was lashed to a tree to receive the penalty of the court. The lash was applied without mercy, and the body of the exile was torn to ribbons on these occasions. The exile was no other than the brother of William Dawson, who is said to be the first English consul for the Maryland district, and who built the historic English Consul residence on the old Annapolis State road, ...