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THE MODEEN BLUE-STOCfcINGr.
Miss Pallas Endora Yon Blurky, She didn't know chicken from turkey; • High Spanish and Greek she could fluently speak, Bnt her knowledge of poultry was murky.
She could tell the great-uncle of Moses, f And the date of the Wars of the Bojses, And the reasons of things—why the Indians wore rings In their red aborginal noses!
Why Shakespeare vi as wrong in his grammar, And the meaning of Emerson's <rßrahma;", And she went clipping rocks with a little black box And a small geological hammer.
She had views upon co-education, And the principal reeds of the nation ; And her glasses were "blue, and the number
she know Of the stars in each high constellation,
And she wrote in a hand-writing clerky, And she talked with an emphasis jerty, And she painted on tiles in the sweetest of
styles; But she didn't know chicken from turkey! —Scribner.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3558, 22 May 1880, Page 1
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152Select Poetry. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3558, 22 May 1880, Page 1
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