482 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A PUBLIC SCHOOL IDYL. 



Ram it in, cram it in, 



Children's heads are hollow; 

 Slam it in, Jam it in, 



Still there's more to follow — 

 Hygiene and history, 

 Astronomic mystery, 

 Algebra, histology, 

 Latin, etymology, 

 Botany, geometry, 

 Greek and trigenometry — 

 Ram it in, cram it in, 



Children's heads are hollow. 



Rap it in, tap it in — 



What are teachers paid for .-' 

 Bang it in, slam it in, 



What are children made for ? 

 Ancient archaeology, 

 Arian philology. 

 Prosody, zoology. 

 Physics, clinictology. 

 Calculus and mathematics. 

 Rhetoric and hydrostatics — 

 Hoax it in, coax it in. 



Children's heads are hollow, 



Rub it in, club it in. 



All there is of learning: 

 Punch it in, crunch it in. 



Quench their childish yearning 

 For the field and grassy nook. 

 Meadow green and rippling brook; 

 Drive such wicked thoughts afar, 

 Teach the children that they are 

 But machines to cram it in, 

 Bang it in, slam it in — 



That their heads are hollow. 



