g!
While I tell you about a bad boy, who often deserves a whipping.
If this boy to you were named, to speak to him you'd feel ashamed,
So to-day I'll only say--He's a wicked, rude, bad, naughty, cross,
nasty, bold, dirty-faced boy!

I won't tell you his age, nor the colour of his hair,
Nor say anything about the clothes he sometimes does wear;
You never see them neat and clean, and seldom without a tear,
Because--He's a wicked, rude, bad, naughty, cross, nasty, bold,
dirty-faced boy!

If he's sent on a message, such a long time he stops,
To pelt stones at Chinamen, and stare in the shops;
Running behind drays, and wastes time so many ways,
That when he gets home his mother says--
Oh you wicked, rude, bad, naughty, cross, nasty, bold, dirty-faced
boy!

If his mother gives him lolly, cake, piece of beef or mutton,
In a corner he'll eat it by himself, he's such a nasty, greedy
glutton.
And he'll smug from his playmates a marble, top or button,
That scarcely any one can with him have any fun,
Because--He's a wicked, rude, bad, naughty, cross, nasty, bold,
dirty-faced boy!

He's been going to school for years, I can't tell you how long,
If you ask him to spell three words, two are sure to be wrong;
If you saw the dirty books and broken slate which to him belong,
You'd easily guess from such a mess that--
He's a wicked, rude, bad, naughty, cross, nasty, bold, dirty-faced
boy!

You can't believe a word he says, he tells so many lies.
He's such a coward, he'll only hit a girl or boy much less than his
size,
But if he gets a blow himself, he howls, bawls, yelps, and cries,
That anyone who sees him never tries to please him,
Because--He's a wicked, rude, bad, naughty, cross, nasty, bold,
dirty-faced boy!

He won't play any game without being always cheating,
I often wonder how he so many times escapes a beating,
And he never says grace before or after eating.
He's scarcely better in the least than a brute beast,
Because--He's a wicked, rude, bad, naughty, cross, nasty, bold,
dirty-faced boy!

What school he goes to at present I won't tell,
But I mean to watch him, and if he don't mind and behave well,
I'll go to every school and ring a little bell,
I'll make a great noise, and show all the girls and boys
This wicked, rude, bad, naughty, cross, nasty, bold, dirty-faced
boy!

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