Originally Posted by gWaPito
... nothing like that! It's many years since I read the novel, 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' but, basically, the story revolves around mid 19th century life at one of the famous English Public Schools for Boys - Rugby, in Warwickshire - where newcomer, 11 year-old Tom is singled out by Flashman, the Head Boy/Prefect - and a notorious bully - to be the latter's runaround.
In the latest edition of Chambers' Dictionary, the word 'fag' - apart from being slang for cigarette - is defined as "a schoolboy [or servant] who carries out menial or tiresome tasks for another ... senior lad.
Now of course, that is NOT to say that either you or Dedworth fit the bill as role models for the fictional characters mentioned above.It was simply my
of "a little"
in response to Fred's mention of the well-known book ... and, not least, a light-hearted attempt to dispel the doom and gloom that the bickering
on this thread has provoked.
