. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . »-*J£f, ./«• .•.-„ MORAL Now you may say that this would seem A fair excuse for boysTo take their ease, and loll and dream, Far from the school-rooms wasted hours Watts might have spent Beneath old Newtons bough,—And Newton oer a kettle have bent From crack o doom till now,And neither would have wiser grown. Then you and I, you see,Might travel yet by stage alone (And oft upset we d be),Nor know (save from some bruised bone) The Law of Gravity !.

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