THE BROWNIES IN CANADA.

Their hope lay not in turning back,
But now to keep the safest track.
‘The helmsman stood well to his task,
Nor had he need for help to ask,

A dozen members of the crew

Were quick to tell him what to do.

  
     

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Now round -the islands, left and right
He steered the craft with wondrous might,

Now grazing banks, now scraping stones,

While rose the cries, the shrieks and groans
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