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Show Tommy's School. "C.potrraphy's a nuisance andarithmotic's n bore!'' Said .ommy, with a frown i:pon his bice. ,;1 haw t ha sicht of grammars, and my Latin makes me roar. It's nbvays sure to get roe in disgrace. When I'm a in;tn." ho added, as he threw hie school hooKS down, 'I'll have afdiool ttiat boys w ill think is fine! They need not know an adjective or adverb from a r.oun, Nor whether Cn-sar bridged the Po or L'liino. I don't c.ire if they think that Georga the Third was king of spa;n. When those old fot'K's lived so long aso. Or if they should answer that the oljra is in Jl a ; ne. What din'ert'iice would it make, I'd like to know ? But instead of useless things I'll teach 'em how to coat and skate; They all shall learn to row and sail a boat, Aud how io fire a pistol and shoot a rifle straight, And how to swim anrl how to dive nr.d float. We'll play at tennis ai.d at cricket all the livelong day. And then there's polo, and- O yes football: And basehail they shall every single one learn how to play, For that's the most important thing of all. I tell you." finished Thomas, "I'll have one of just that kind: Then sll thi hoys, you Eee, will want to go. They will rot run away and say my school's an 1 'awful grind,' Or call the lessons dull and hard, I know." fit. JVicfiolas. |