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And wc'rc very happy all day long,
As each of us can tell.
By-and-by we’ll each grow larger,
And can do a larger share.
But don’t think little girls useless,
Tt isn't exactly fair,
For little girls do little things
Quite as well as you,
And sometimes a little better;
Now, don’t you think so, too?
E. L. B rown

\ SC HOOI .-GIRL'S TROUBLES,

SOLO AND CH ORUS.
At, (prmt “ Patience1"), “ The Magnet and the Churn" Or may Ot
spoke;i.

A dozen or mors little girls, dressed, ready for school, with books am\
sckool-bags in thdv hands.
F irst v e r s e— S olo.
I now attend a public school,
And always try to mind each ruie;
I study grammar and learn Lu spell,
In both of which I quite excel.
Sad to .‘iny, in firithiTictu'
My poor head seems to be so tljfeK-
I always look and feel most gluts
When asked to do a simple sum.

C horus—* A simple sum?

S olo— A simple sum?
Though very clcver, in ciph’rtng ever
I seemed to be ino.it dumb;