. St. Nicholas [serial] . ass,He saw the happier scholars pass,Promoted one by one. Alas, His ignorance was fearful The pedagogue each morning draggedThe boy to school, with steps that lagged And loud expostulation;Each night the proud paternal hallsReechoed his despairing bawls,As on through tempests and through squalls He sought his education. So matters went from bad to worseFor master, pedagogue, and nurse, Till little AtticussAmbitious, kind, and wise papaLaid down his—no, not his cigar— Vol. XXIX.—136. His lute, perhaps, or cithara,And said (in Greek): This is too much!My nerves are shat
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ass,He saw the happier scholars pass,Promoted one by one. Alas, His ignorance was fearful The pedagogue each morning draggedThe boy to school, with steps that lagged And loud expostulation;Each night the proud paternal hallsReechoed his despairing bawls,As on through tempests and through squalls He sought his education. So matters went from bad to worseFor master, pedagogue, and nurse, Till little AtticussAmbitious, kind, and wise papaLaid down his—no, not his cigar— Vol. XXIX.—136. His lute, perhaps, or cithara,And said (in Greek): This is too much!My nerves are shattered quite, withsuchDistracting frets and fusses. And straightway he put on, with that,His laurel wreath (he had no hat),His purple chlamys (which, you 11 note,Was just a kind of overcoat),And to the market went he; Where, from a hundred lit-tle slavesBrought captive from be-yond the waves,He chose him four andtwenty; And, quite regardless of their names,Josiah, Jacob, John, orJames—No, no! those are notGrecian!). I082 ATTICUS AND THE ALPHABET. [Oct.
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