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  • I well remember, when I first went to Eton, the head-boy called us together, and pointing to a little fellow with a mass of curly red hair, said, “If ever you see that boy, kick him – and if you are too far off to kick him, throw a stone.”

    August 2004 Michael Allen 2004

  • I well remember, when I first went to Eton, the head-boy called us together, and pointing to a little fellow with a mass of curly red hair, said, “If ever you see that boy, kick him – and if you are too far off to kick him, throw a stone.”

    The illusion of fame Michael Allen 2004

  • I well remember, when I first went to Eton, the head-boy called us together, and pointing to a little fellow with a mass of curly red hair, said, “If ever you see that boy, kick him – and if you are too far off to kick him, throw a stone.”

    Archive 2004-08-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • The salt, or money, then collected belonged, as is well known, to the head-boy who had "got Montem," as it (alas!) _was_ called, and who was about to enter on his career (of course as a freshman) at Cambridge.

    Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 Various

  • It was in 1890, and Steevens had been head-boy of the City of London School, and then Senior

    From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

  • He bridged a gulf which was deemed impassable, for from being a head-boy at school and the youngest Balliol scholar and a Fellow of his College and the very type of rising pedagogue, with a career secure to him in these dusty meadows, he chose to step forth into a world where these things were accounted lightly, to glorify the hitherto contemned office of the reporter.

    From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

  • "Yes," replied I, remarking for the first time the cross that decorated his little coat; "and I see that you are head-boy!"

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • He gave them some tea and food, and he too told them that Absalom had become a head-boy, and had behaved well during his stay at the reformatory.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • He gave them some tea and food, and he too told them that Absalom had become a head-boy, and had behaved well during his stay at the reformatory.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

  • He gave them some tea and food, and he too told them that Absalom had become a head-boy, and had behaved well during his stay at the reformatory.

    Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

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