Impressions of Feldkirch on a New Boy

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Impressions of Feldkirch on a New Boy is a poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle published in his handwritten magazine The Feldkirchian Gazette (Vol. I, october 1875).


Impressions of Feldkirch on a New Boy

After "The Buckingham dragoon"

When the play ground I first had beheld-held
With slobbering foreigners full.
I thought "what a strange place is Feld-Feld
The glorious Feld-kirchian school.

I saw them all in the house then-then,
And each of them wearing a hat.
They're a strange set, I thought, in the pen-pen
The Feldkirchian pen-sionât

Each German I met was a tell-tell
a telltale or else was a fool.
They are rum ones, I thought, in the Fel-Fel
The famous Fel-kirchian school.

A chap, just as big as most men-men,
Turned out a most terrible brat.
And the brats were all men in the pen-pen
The Feldkirchian pen-sionât.

But I'll sell you no more of the foll-foll,
The folly they always are at.
You may see it yourselves in this coll-coll
This college or pen-sionât.

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