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第77章 “WANTED-A BOY.”

1.“Wanted-a boy.”How often we These common little words may see.

Wanted for errands to be run,Wanted for everything under the sun.All that the men to-day can do,To-morrow the boys will be doing too;For soon the time is coming when The boys must take the place of men.

2.Wanted-the world wants boys to-day;And it offers them all it has for pay-Honour,wealth,position,fame ,A useful life and a deathless name .

Boys to shape the paths for men,Boys to guide the plough and pen,Boys to forward the tasks begun,For the world’s great work is never done.

3.The world is anxious to employ Not merely some,but every boy Whose heart and head will ever be true To the work his hands shall find to do.Honest,faithful,earnest,kind;To good awake,to evil blind;Heart of pure gold without alloy ,-Wanted-the world wants such a boy.