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is nothing to laugh at, gentlemen, some of you have a number of zeros against you this tern]. At this point in the lesson r have a piece of poetry T wish to read you inspired by the impress of that little fern on this rock. It is full of poetical sentiment and I think it is quite grand. One of the boys has reproduced it as follows: Golly lhon little rem, Thou ueve r graced au uru, nut all impress thou didst burn III the solid rock Of the ages that have rolled, O'er this enrth so hleak and cold, Siucc to tho II didst unfold, Nature the lock. ~ "It is of more importance, however, that you clearly see how this great world of ours has been constructed, and think what a wonderful old book it is, with its pages, chapters and volumes revealing to us the mysteries of untold ages.c-Genttemen, what great disturbance occurred at the end of the Paleozoic era?" Cjass-c-vThe upheaval of the Appalachian Mountain System." vves-s-s-s-s -, there must have been a big time then. Now, as we have gotten over the moutaius, here is also something to inspire the poetical imagination if there are any poets itl the class" An olel, dried-up Brachiopod from Silurian rock is shown". All begin to invoke the muse with astonish- ing results. This is a specimen: Poor. petrified old You've loug' been buried sod, On thee the nham-phor-hyu cllns trod, Old brncbiopodns brachiopod The Lord kuows how you gol to us. Brnchiopodus iUClll)llS.§ "In discussing those Saureans of the Mesozoic era, 1 remember one gentlemen after describing the Rharupborhyue/ee Oil examination put at the end of his paper=-t weu, he is the worst 'CIISS' I ever came across.' There is also a good story told of the Labyrinthodont. a frog like animal of the same era It is said that he was so extremely large that he would hop from one hill-top to another, and creak so loud that he could be heard all over the continent. A grave problem WaS once disturbing the Eohippus, or dawn horse, when he soliloquized to himself: +Toe be, or not toe be?" The bell is heard, boys begin to recover consciollsness and wake lip. (. Gentle- men, you may take the same lesson over again, and I shall occupy the period to- morrow in illustrating to you bow this old world of our's bas been formed. You are dismissed, gentlemen, but don't forget about this old world - --," but the class bas gone. *This is an i11lpro,·"tllenl on Ihe ori>:;"~1. THe "eeds hi~ "Sa!,::wa" ;;jf Thi~ is Lyric.