Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!

And they'd bang the school-door till the plastering fell,

Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!

They'd clinch as they came, and pretend not to see

As they knocked her desk over—then, My! and O-me!

How awfully sorry they'd both seem to be!

Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!

This trick seemed so neat and so safe a conceit,—