Bertram Mitford
"Haviland's Chum"
Chapter One.
The New Boy.
“Hi! Blacky! Here—hold hard. D’you hear, Snowball?”
The last peremptorily. He thus addressed, paused, turned, and eyed somewhat doubtfully, not without a tinge of apprehension, the group of boys who thus hailed him.
“What’s your name?” pursued the latter, “Caesar, Pompey, Snowball—what?”
“Or Uncle Tom?” came another suggestion.