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    The Brownies: Their Book
    The Brownies: Their Book
    The Brownies: Their Book
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    The Brownies: Their Book

    By Palmer Cox

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1964
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      The Brownies - Palmer Cox

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Brownies: Their Book, by Palmer Cox

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      Title: The Brownies: Their Book

      Author: Palmer Cox

      Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32210]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROWNIES: THEIR BOOK ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      THE BROWNIES:

      THEIR BOOK

      BY

      PALMER COX

      APPLETON-CENTURY-CROFTS, INC.

      NEW YORK

      Copyright 1887, by

      The Century Co.

      Copyright renewed, 1915, by

      The Century Co.

      —————

      All rights reserved. This book, or parts

      thereof, must not be reproduced in any

      form without permission of the publisher.

      Printed in U. S. A.

      CONTENTS.

      THE BROWNIES AT SCHOOL.

      S Brownies rambled 'round one night,

      A country schoolhouse came in sight;

      And there they paused awhile to speak

      About the place, where through the week

      The scholars came, with smile or whine,

      Or sighs to break his scribbled slate

      And spring at once to man's estate.

      How oft from shades of yonder grove

      I've viewed at eve the shouting drove

      As from the door they crowding broke,

      Like oxen from beneath the yoke."

      Another said: "The teacher's chair,

      The ruler, pen, and birch are there,

      The blackboard hangs against the wall;

      The slate's at hand, the books and all.

      We might go in to read and write

      And master sums like scholars bright."

      I'll play, cried one, "the teacher's part;

      I know some lessons quite by heart,

      And every section of the land

      To me is plain as open hand."

      With all respect, my friend, to you,

      Another said, "that would not do.

      You're hardly fitted, sir, to rule;

      Your place should be the dunce's stool.

      You're not with great endowments blessed;

      Besides, your temper's not the best,

      And those who train the budding mind

      Should own a disposition kind.

      The rod looks better on the tree

      Than resting by the master's knee;

      I'll be the teacher, if you please;

      I know the rivers, lakes, and seas,

      And, like a banker's clerk, can throw

      The figures nimbly in a row.

      I have the patience, love, and grace,

      So requisite in such a case."

      Now some bent o'er a slate or book,

      And some at blackboards station took.

      They clustered 'round the globe with zeal,

      And kept it turning like a wheel.

      And buried up in Polar snows

      You find the hardy Eskimos;

      While here and there some scorching spots

      Are set apart for Hottentots.

      And see the rivers small and great,

      That drain a province or a state;

      The name and shape of every nation;

      Their faith, extent, and population:

      And whether governed by a King,

      A President, or council ring."

      While some with such expressions bold

      Surveyed the globe as 'round it rolled,

      Still others turned to ink and pen,

      And, spreading like a brooding hen,

      They scrawled a page to show the band

      Their special style, or business hand.

      The teacher had enough

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