Only several old teachers were left to take
care of the students at school and all the young ones had gone far away
rehearsing for a coming singing contest.

三五長者留老營，悉數少年盡逺征。The urchins fed up with studying flagrantly
violate the class discipline because the teacher’s beating ruler has been rusty for having
been sealed too long.

頑童厭學恣横行，戒尺生鏽長密封。