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.