“Were I Pastor in a boarding-school,
I’d quash such books in toto;—if I couldn’t,
Let me but catch one Miss that broke my rule,
I’d flog her soundly; damme if I wouldn’t.”
William, ’tis plain, was getting in a rage;
But, Thomas dryly said,—for he was cool—
“I think no gentleman would mend the age
By flogging Ladies at a Boarding-school.”
Dick knock’d the ashes from his pipe,
And said, “Friend Will,