trousers cut over from Jim’s,

We scampered to school every morning with

dinner pails filled to their brims.

There were doughnuts, both holed ones and

twisters, and always a bottle of cream,

And jell cakes and tarts and all such like—oh,

bow the kids’ eyes used to gleam!

I pitied the poor little shavers who slunk to a

corner to eat,

Who brought only bread and potatoes and never