. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . )cr ! So{)liia, go to bed ! Harry, quit that snicker! Stop that confounded noise, all of you ! The fun is over. The water is quiet. The dolphins have, turned theirlast somersault. Instead of getting down on his hands and knees,and being as lively as a bear, ius any of them, he goes to shootingporpoiaai SHOOTING PORPOISES. 705 Here is a large school of famous pretension, professors high-salaried, ap-paratus complete, globes on which you can travel round the world in fiveminutes, spect
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . )cr ! So{)liia, go to bed ! Harry, quit that snicker! Stop that confounded noise, all of you ! The fun is over. The water is quiet. The dolphins have, turned theirlast somersault. Instead of getting down on his hands and knees,and being as lively as a bear, ius any of them, he goes to shootingporpoiaai SHOOTING PORPOISES. 705 Here is a large school of famous pretension, professors high-salaried, ap-paratus complete, globes on which you can travel round the world in fiveminutes, spectroscopes, and Leyden jars, and chromatropes, and electricbatteries. No one disputed its influence or its well-earned fame. Themasters and misses that graduate come out equipped for duty. Long mayit stand the adornment of the town. But a widow whose sons werekilled in the war opens a school in her basement. She has a smallgroup of little children whose tuition is her sole means of SHOOTING POEPOISES. The high school looks with sharp eyes on the rising up of the low schoolThe big institution has no respect whatever for little institutions. Theparents patronizing the widow must be persuaded that they are wastingtheir childrens time in that basement. Women have no right to bewidows or have their sons killed in the war. From the of thehigh school the arrows are pointed at the helpless establishment in thecomer. Bang! goes the aitillery of scorn till one of the widowsscholars has gone,. Bang! go the guns from the deck of the great edu-cational craft till the innovating institution turns over and done! Used it up quick ! Ha ! ha! ha ! Shooting -porpoises ! 706 THE DAY IS DONE. Grab, Chokeham & Co. have a large store. They sell more goodsthan any in town. They brag over their income and the size of the glassin their show-window. They have enough clerks on light salaries to mana small navy. Mr. Needham, an honest man with small capital, ope
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