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<h2><SPAN name="THE_BROWNIES_IN_THE_ACADEMY" id="THE_BROWNIES_IN_THE_ACADEMY"></SPAN>THE BROWNIES IN THE ACADEMY.</h2> <div class="container"> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <span class="figpoeml"> <ANTIMG src="images/i007b.jpg" width-obs="122" height-obs="120" alt="" class="alignleft" /> </span> <div class="i7">The Brownies once with capers spry</div> <div class="i8">To an Academy drew nigh,</div> <div class="i8">Which, founded by a generous hand,</div> <div class="i8">Spread light and learning through the land.</div> <div class="i8">The students, by ambition fired,</div> <div class="i7">And men of science had retired;</div> <div class="i6">So Brownies, through their mystic power,</div> <div class="i5">Now took advantage of the hour.</div> <div class="i4">A battery was soon displayed,</div> <div class="i3">And strange experiments were made;</div> <div class="i2">Electric currents were applied</div> <span class="figpoemr"> <ANTIMG src="images/i007c.jpg" width-obs="200" height-obs="135" alt="" class="alignright" /> </span> <div class="i0">To meadow-frogs they found inside,</div> <div class="i0">Which sage professors, nights and days,</div> <div class="i0">Had gathered up, in various ways.</div> <div class="i0">To making pills some turned the mind,</div> <div class="i0">While some to Dentistry inclined,</div> <div class="i0">And aching teeth, both small and large,</div> <div class="i0">Were there extracted free of charge.</div> </div></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i008a.jpg" width-obs="500" height-obs="322" alt="" /></div> <div class="container"> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="i0">More gazed where phrenologic charts</div> <div class="i0">Showed heads partitioned off in parts.</div> <div class="i0">Said one: "Let others knowledge gain</div> <div class="i0">Through which to conquer ache and pain,</div> <div class="i0">But by these charts I'll do my best</div> <div class="i0">To learn where Fancy makes her nest."</div> <div class="i0">Another cried, as he surveyed</div> <div class="i0">The bumps that were so well arrayed:</div> <div class="i0">"These heads exhibit, full and clear,</div> <span class="figpoeml"> <ANTIMG src="images/i008b.jpg" width-obs="133" height-obs="150" alt="" class="alignleft" /> </span> <div class="i6">Which one to love and whom to fear;</div> <div class="i7">Who is with noble thoughts inspired,</div> <div class="i8">And who with hate or envy fired;</div> <div class="i9">The man as timid as the hare,</div> <div class="i10">The man destructive as the bear.</div> <div class="i11">While choosing partners, one may find</div> <div class="i12">It well to keep these charts in mind."</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</SPAN></span> <div class="i6">A microscope at length, they found;</div> <div class="i6">And next, the Brownies gathered round</div> <div class="i6">A stereopticon machine</div> <div class="i6">That cast its rays upon a screen.</div> <div class="i6">A thousand times it magnified,</div> <div class="i6">Till, stretching out on every side,</div> <ANTIMG src="images/i009.jpg" width-obs="398" height-obs="450" alt="" class="aligncenter" /></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</SPAN></span> <ANTIMG src="images/i010a.jpg" width-obs="500" height-obs="186" alt="" class="aligncenter" /> <div class="i0">An object large and larger spread,</div> <div class="i0">And filled the gazing group with dread.</div> <div class="i0">The locust, beetle, and the bee</div> <div class="i0">Soon gained proportions strange to see,</div> <div class="i0">And seemed like monsters close at hand</div> <div class="i0">To put an end to all the band.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="figpoemr"> <ANTIMG src="images/i010b.jpg" width-obs="122" height-obs="40" alt="" class="alignright" /> </span> <ANTIMG src="images/i010c.jpg" width-obs="299" height-obs="400" alt="" class="alignleft" /> <div class="i6">Ere long a door was open swung,</div> <div class="i6">To show some skeletons that hung</div> <div class="i6">From hook and peg, which caused a shout</div> <div class="i6">Of fear to rise from those about.</div> <div class="i6">Said one: "Thus Science works its way</div> <div class="i6">Through old remains from day to day;</div> <div class="i6">And those who during life could find</div> <div class="i6">No time, perhaps, to aid mankind,</div> <div class="i6">May, after all, in some such place</div> <div class="i9">For years assist the human race</div> <div class="i9">By giving students, as you see,</div> <div class="i9">Some knowledge of Anatomy."</div> <div class="i9">At other times, all breathless grouped</div> <div class="i9">O'er crucibles, the Brownies stooped</div> </div></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="container"> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> <span class="figpoemr"> <ANTIMG src="images/i011a.jpg" width-obs="250" height-obs="209" alt="" class="alignright" /> </span> <div class="i0">To separate, with greatest skill,</div> <div class="i0">The grains which cure from those that kill;</div> <div class="i0">While burning acids, blazes blue,</div> <div class="i0">And odors strong confused the crew.</div> <div class="i0">Cried one: "Through trials hard to bear,</div> <div class="i0">The student must himself prepare,</div> <div class="i0">Though mixing paint, or mixing pill&mdash;</div> <div class="i3">Or mixing phrases, if you will&mdash;</div> <div class="i3">No careless study satisfies</div> <span class="figpoeml"> <ANTIMG src="images/i011b.jpg" width-obs="200" height-obs="149" alt="" class="alignleft" /> </span> <div class="i10">If one would to distinction rise;</div> <div class="i11">The minds that shed from pole to pole</div> <div class="i11">The light of years, as round we roll,</div> <div class="i12">Are first enriched through patient toil,</div> <div class="i12">And kindled by the midnight oil."</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="figpoemr"> <ANTIMG src="images/i011c.jpg" width-obs="159" height-obs="150" alt="" class="alignright" /> </span> <div class="i13">Thus, spicing logic with a joke,</div> <div class="i13">They chatted on till morning broke;</div> <div class="i12">And then with wild and rapid race</div> <div class="i12">The Brownie band forsook the place.</div> </div></div> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i011d.jpg" width-obs="150" height-obs="108" alt="" /></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />