When a boy at school, in Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, this bad specimen of humanity always fell below his class. One of his schoolfellows remembers these couplets, which a little urchin of twelve made about him on a certain “exhibition day” many years ago:And here's Johnny Maffit, as straight as a gun--
If you face him square up, he'll turn round and run!
The first boy in school, sir, if thieving and lies,
Instead of good scholarship, bore off the prize.
Maffit, the pirate Captain.--The Boston Transcript says:
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