HIGH SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.
TO THE EDITOB. Mister Editor, —I am only a little chap, bo can't write well. But it's not fair, and I want you to help mo. I did like Mr ©argill'a speech at our High School breakup, and I thought I would try hard to be an "honorable, truthful jnan of my 'word/' just like all those good men that spoke to us. But when Dr Stuart told us that we. were only to get to 11th February holidays, I felt very riled, and determined to write you. Sir, somebody is neither " honorable nor truthful nor men of their word," for it was announced in the school two years ago that All Saints' Days were no longer to be holidays, but that instead eight weeks would be given at midsummer. Last year we were done out of it, and we let it pass ; but this year we are again cribbed of a week. I think I will try to be a boy as long, as I can, for I see that all the fine talk about honor ia only for boyß, and I don't want to be a man, however great, and not keep my won?. —lam, etc., Third Class, Lower School.
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Evening Star, Issue 6478, 20 December 1883, Page 4
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