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THE QUESTION OF OYER-PEESSUEE AGAIN. Our system of education, some say, has become a curse, And the School Boards have been assailed in terms of such fierce abuse, Tbat the Bard has decided at last to relate a little anecdote, illustrative of the difficulties with which they have to contend, and if his lines have a tendency to extend beyond the limits of decent verse, Jlis own personal excitement, and the vast importance of the subject with which he deals, must jilead his excuse. There were once two babies named Johnson, the elder v/as christened Sam, John was the younger's title, his intimates called him Jack. They were both apprehended by the School Board Officer for being feloniously at large in their mother's cottage, and were carried away to cram. The elder one, Samuel, however, escaijed to the wilderness, where he subsisted upon roots and herbs, and successfully defied the efforts of Mr. Butler and all his myrmidons to fetch him back. The more fortunate John, however, was bent to the School Board's will, And he entered without delay on his State-compelled career. During the period which extends between weaning and vaccination, he became thoroughly grounded in the higher mathematics, use of globes, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanscrit, two or three modern languages, law, physic, philosophy, political economy (including of course the works of Mr. Henry George and of John Stuart Mill) ; Together with a general knowledge of the duties which appertain to the naval and military officer, the land surveyor, and the civil engineer. LOCAL LYRICS. 31 Time passed away, and the Board observed with a gTowing pride