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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Old Medford Schoolboys' letters. (search)
e called, was styled by the other portion as the ‘Fag End.’ stood opposed. Fag-enders and Maggots, ah! how they waged fight And muzzled each other with such cool delight. Their whole ammunition consisted of snow, And that flew as fast as a tempest could blow; And woe to the lummox who blundered and fell, Stuffed full of a snowdrift, unable to yell. Fag-enders were those that most frequently run; The Maggots, confound them, were three to our one; We had but two heroes on whom to rely, Bill Roach and Seth Vining would never say die. Against any trick the Maggots would use Those two stood as firm as a rock, in their shoes. When those two Napoleons were ranged on our side, A million of Maggots we would have defied. Sometimes they stood plastered from head to toe, Appearing like statues fresh cut from the snow. The chief of Clan Maggot I may have forgot, Indeed I don't know if they had one or not. The clan had a fashion, a cowardly one, To shelter themselves with a fence, tree or sto