A TREASURY OF STORIES, /INGLES AND RHYMES.

A LECTURE.

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H® subject was a chestnut ;
Her lecture was a treat;
She said, a fairy hid inside

~ And lived upon the meat.

And if you tried to roast it,
You'd find if this were true;

The shell would open with a “pop!”
While off the fairy flew.

The only proof still lacking,—
And somehow hard to get,—
Was just to see the fairy fly,
Which had not happened yet!
ffelen Gray Cone.

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