- Nora, a wild girl who lives with her alcoholic father, is forced to attend school. The untamed girl, who does not know how to socialize, is soon taunted by the other children. She warms towards the kind schoolteacher, as he befriends and encourages her, until she is told to wear the dunce cap at a spelling bee. She then angrily leaves the school and encounters a slick huckster. He convinces her they will run away and be married. Meanwhile, the schoolteacher, concerned over the waif's absence, goes looking for her. He encounters her at a crossroad, being spirited away by the cad. He calls the man's bluff by telling them he will get the minister to marry them at once. The huckster high-tails it out of town, leaving a rejected Nora. The caring schoolteacher, lovingly escorts her back to school.—Pamela Short
- Little Nora is called the madcap of the village. She was not vicious, but merely mischievous, with her heart in the right place. Her madcap nature is not to be wondered at, as she was allowed to run wild, her mother being dead and her father a laborer. The school commissioners write to her father insisting that she be sent to school, and she would have been happy there if the scholars had not made her the butt of ridicule. This she strenuously resents and in her unhappy, lonesome condition, she listens to the flattery of a traveling street fakir, who would have succeeded in taking her away with him had not the school teacher, who saw in her a diamond in the rough, prevented it.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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By what name was The School Teacher and the Waif (1912) officially released in Canada in English?
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