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(_A long way after Ingoldsby_)
When Anthony Adamson first went to school / The reception he got was decidedly cool; / And, because he was utterly hopeless at games, / He was given all sorts of opprobrious names, / Which ranged the whole gamut from 'fat-head' to 'fool'; / For boys as a rule, Are what nurses call 'crool,' / 'Tis their natural instinct, which nobody blames, / Any more than the habits Peculiar to rabbits, / To label a duffer 'old woman' or 'muff,' or / Some name calculated to cause him to suffer. / They failed in their treatment this time, on the whole, / Since our Anthony thoroughly pitied the role / Of the oaf who is muddied, (For Kipling he'd studied), / However strong-hearted, broad-limbed, and warm-blooded, / Who sits in a goal, Quite deficient of soul, / And as blind to the beauties of Life as a mole.