The Oldhallian

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Page 3 - The papers they had finished lay In piles of blue and white. They answered everything they could. And wrote with all their might, But, though they wrote it all by rote, They did not write it right. The Vulture and the Husbandman Beside these piles did stand, They wept like anything to see The work they had in hand, " If this were only finished up...
Page 3 - ... fun." The papers they had finished lay In piles of blue and white. They answered everything they could. And wrote with all their might, But, though they wrote it all by rote, They did not write it right. The Vulture and the Husbandman Beside these piles did stand, They wept like anything to see The work they had in hand, " If this were only finished up...
Page 3 - Undergraduates, come up," The Vulture did beseech, " And let us see if you can learn As well as we can teach ; We cannot do with more than two, To have a word with each." Two Undergraduates came up, And slowly took a seat ; They knit their brows, and bit their thumbs, As if they found them sweet ; And this was odd, because you know Thumbs are not good to eat.
Page 3 - NB — A Vulture is a rapacious and obscene bird, which destroys its prey by plucking it limb from limb with its powerful beak and talons. A Husbandman is a man in a low position of life, who supports himself by the use of the plough. — (Johnson's Dictionary).
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