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THE NEW BOY
- His name is Parr: he says that he
- Is given bread and milk for tea.
- He says his father killed a bear.
- He says his mother cuts his hair.
- He wears goloshes when it's wet.
- I've heard his people call him “Pet”!
- He has no proper sense of shame;
- He told the chaps his Christian name.
- He cannot wicket-keep at all,
- He's frightened of a cricket ball.
- He reads, indoors, for hours and hours.
- He knows the names of beastly flowers.
- He says his French just like Mossoo—
- A beastly stuck-up thing to do
- He won't keep cave, shirks his turn
- And says he came to school to learn!
- He won't play football, says it hurts;
- He wouldn't fight with Paley Terts;
- He couldn't whistle if he tried,
- And when we laughed at him he cried!
- Now, Wigsby Minor says that Parr
- Is only like all new boys are.
- I know when I first came to school
- I wasn't such a jolly fool!
