THE BROWNIES IN FRANCE.

SixtH STAGE.

  

evening when the Brownies met

They talked and planned of how to get
A ship or boat to serve their need,
So o’er to France they might proceed.
Said one, at length: ‘‘My comrades brave,
I ’ve heard about this choppy wave,
Where winds and tides so oft contend
And to the rail old sailors send
Who were when sailing open sea
From all internal troubles free.

Now, we ‘ll not be to ships confined

That may at least upset our mind

If nothing more, while we can go

In other ways, as I will show.

Last night, while poking round, I spied

Not half a mile from ocean side,

To my surprise, a strange affair

That ’s made to travel through the air,

Not like balloons ascending high,

Which as the wind directs them fly,
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