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The Schoolboy's Story
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Originally published in the 1853 Christmas edition of Dickens' journal Household Words, The Schoolboy's Story recounts the tale of Old Cheeseman, a schoolboy who becomes the second Latin Master, and his former peers who consider him a traitor for doing it. This version of The Schoolboy's Story is part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.
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The Schoolboyâs Story
Being rather young at presentâI am getting on in years, but still I am rather youngâI have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon. It wouldnât much interest anybody here, I suppose, to know what a screw the Reverend is, or what a griffin she is, or how they do stick it into parentsâparticularly hair-cutting, and medical attendance. One of our fellows was charged in his halfâs account twelve and sixpence for two pillsâtolerably profitable at six and threepence a-piece, I should thinkâand he never took them either, but put them up the sleeve of his jacket.
As to the beef, itâs shameful. Itâs not beef. Regular beef isnât veins. You can chew regular beef. Besides which, thereâs gravy to regular beef, and you never see a drop to ours. Another of our fellows went home ill, and heard the family doctor tell his father that he couldnât account for his complaint unless it was the beer. Of course it was the beer, and well it might be!
However, beef and Old Cheeseman are two different things. So is beer. It was Old Cheeseman I meant to tell about; not the manner in which our fellows get their constitutions destroyed for the sake of profit.
Why, look at the pie-crust alone. Thereâs no flakiness in it. Itâs solidâlike damp lead. Then our fellows get nightmares, and are bolstered for calling out and waking other fellows. Who can wonder!
Old Cheeseman one night walked in his sleep, put his hat on over his night-cap, got hold of a fishing-rod and a cricket-bat, and went down into the parlour, where they naturally thought from his appearance he was a Ghost. Why, he never would have done that if his meals had been wholesome. When we all begin to walk in our sleeps, I suppose theyâll be sorry for it.
Old Cheeseman wasnât second Latin Master then; he was a fellow himself. He was first brought there, very small, in a post-chaise, by a woman who was always taking snuff and shaking himâand that was the most he remembered about it. He never went home for the holidays. His accounts (he never learnt any extras) were sent to a Bank, and the Bank paid them; and he had a brown suit twice a-year, and went into boots at twelve. They were always too big for him, too.
In the Midsummer holidays, some of our fellows who lived within walking distance, used to come back and climb the trees outside the playground wall, on purpose to look at Old Cheeseman reading there by himself. He was always as mild as the teaâand thatâs pretty mild, I should hope!âso when they whistled to him, he looked up and nodded; and when they said, âH...
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