Short Christmas Stories The Schoolboy’s Story By Charles Dickens Listen to the story The Schoolboy’s Story Being rather young at present—I am getting on in years, but still, I am rather young— I have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon. It wouldn’t much interest anybody here, I suppose, to know what a screw the Reverend is, or what a griffin she is, or how they do stick it into parents—particularly hair-cutting and medical attendance. One of our fellows was charged in his half’s account twelve and sixpence for two pills —tolerably profitable at six and threepence a piece, I should think—and he never took them either but put them up the sleeve of his jacket. As to the beef, it’s shameful….