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•'Oh, no; nobody ever saw one except Mr. Cook and Mr, Emer­
son; but they arc something like an oyster with a reticule hung on
its bolt. I think they are just, heavenly,”
“ Do you learn anything cl.se besides?”
u Oh, yes. We learn about common philosophy and logic, and
those common tilings like metaphysics; but the girls don’t care any­
thing about those. We arc just in ecstacies over differentiations and
molecules, and Mr. Cook and protoplasms, and ascidians and Mr.
Emerson, and I really don’t see why they put in those vulgar
branches. Tf anybody, beside Mr. Cook and Mr. Emerson, had done
it, we should have to id him to his face that he was too terribly,
awfully mean,”
And the Brooklyn girl went to bed that night in the dumps,
because fortune had not vouchsafed her the advantages enjoyed by

her friend*

“ WASH DOLLY UP LIKE THAT.”
[Cliild dialect*]

T ’L L be the goodcst little girl
| That ever you did see,
If you’ll let me take my dolly
To church with you and me,
It’s too drefful bad to leave her
When wc's all gone away ;
O h! Cosette will be so lonesome
To stay at home all day.”

' Twas such a pleading pair of eyes
And winsome little face
That mamma couldn’t well refuse,
Though church was not the place
For dolls or playthings she well knew,
Still mamma’s little maid