THE BRITISH SCHOOL BOY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1361, 26 December 1885, Page 2

THE BRITISH SCHOOL BOY.

The talented Frenchman, who oa<gK the non de plums of Max. O’fietl, TtbjV those clever «kits on English manners end ' customs, “ John Ball and his Island,” and "John Bull's Womankind,” bn recently published another work c tiled “Bos chons vuisins,” in which he gives , the following description of the British school-boy. Be writes:—“lt is a sturdy, hardy, robust, welUknitted lad, with muscles of steel, and mule-like obstinacy, who, sooner than let go the football which he fiercely cuddles, will peform prodigies of valor; who merely for the chance of making that ball pass between two gaols, will bite the dust,. will let his flesh be torn, his jaws dislocated, bis riba stove in; and would even be carried off to die upon a bed of anguish, with a smile upon his lips. If he Oould only hear as hia ; young eyes oloded, that hia aide bad se- 1 cored the game. 1 * Then he goes on:— “ Multiply such an English yooth np to tfae- number of the stare of the firmsnumt, ~V and yoo will get an Idee of the martial, if not the military strength of England.”