THE ABSENT-MINDED SCHOOL BOY.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 277, 18 July 1918, Page 15

THE ABSENT-MINDED SCHOOL BOY.

(Witn apologies to Rudyard Kipling.) When you’ve skimmed the comic papers, when you’ve finished “Black and White,” When you’ve read the 8.0. P. from end to end, Will you kindly give a hearing while the poet doth recite The short and simple hist »r> of .1 friend ? He's an absent-minded schoolboy, and his weaknesses are great, But we are bound to take him as we find him When his sums he’s not quite sure about, he’ll rub them off his slate, And his Latin exercise he’ll leave behind him! Duke's son, cook’s son, son of the millionaire, Son of the aristrex ra< y, it's all the same I say, All of them do their b* st to make the master tear his hair, Put their hands in their pockets deep, and play! pi iv ! play! When he fails to say his lesson*, he will look you in the face, And will tell you, though you may it not prefer, That his hook has lost that page, sir, or he could not find the; place, Or he did not know the class had got to there. He’s an absent-minded fellow, and he’ll soon forget it all, For he does not like an old boy to remind him, When he’s got among the seniors, and is growing ver\ tall, He was once a little kid he'd left behind him. Duke’s son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, Son of the aristroc ra< y, twill be all the same some day ; They all will do their best to forget that ever they did su< h things. That once they had never a thought except for plav! play! pla\ ! - J.T.