<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416635" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hik-Tee-Dik!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE WAR-CRY OF BILLY AND BUDDY</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When two little boys--renowned but for noise--<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!--<br>May hurt a whole school, and the head it employs,<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!<br>Such loud and hilarious pupils indeed<br>Need learning--and yet something further they need,<br>Though fond hearts that love them may sorrow and bleed.<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O the schoolmarm was cool, and in no wise a fool;<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!<br>And in ruling her ranks it was _her_ rule to _rule_;<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!<br>So when these two pupils conspired, every day,<br>Some mad piece of mischief, with whoop and hoo-ray,<br>That hurt yet defied her,--how happy were they!--<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the ring of the bell they 'd rush in with a yell--<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!<br>And they'd bang the school-door till the plastering fell,<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!<br>They'd clinch as they came, and pretend not to see<br>As they knocked her desk over--then, _My!_ and _O-me!_<br>How awfully sorry they'd both seem to be!<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This trick seemed so neat and so safe a conceit,--<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!--<br>They played it three times--though the third they were beat;<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!<br>For the teacher, she righted her desk--raised the lid<br>And folded and packed away each little kid--<br>Closed the incident so--yes, and locked it, she did--<br>Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416635" data-title="Hik-Tee-Dik! de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="THE WAR-CRY OF BILLY AND BUDDY When two little boys--renowned but for noise-- Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!-- May hurt a whole school, and the head it employs, Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy! Such loud and hilarious pupils indeed Need learning--an..."></div> </div> </div>

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