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ed a corner, quite Gone out of sight! At last, conceive her, rising from the ground, Weary of sitting on her russet clothing, And looking round Where rest was to be found, There was no house--no villa there--no nothing! No house! The change was quite amazing; It made her senses stagger for a minute, The riddle's explication seemed to harden; But soon her superannuated _nous_ Explain'd the horrid mystery;--and raising Her hand to heaven, with the cabbage in it, On which she meant to sup,-- "Well! this _is_ Fairy work! I'll bet a farden, Little Prince Silverwings has ketch'd me up, And set me down in some one else's garden!" CRANIOLOGY. 'Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man--with his bumps upon his sconce, Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he Has had, till lately, of Phrenology-- A science that by simple dint of Head-combing he should find a hint of, When scratching o'er those little poll-hills, The faculties throw up like mole-hills; A science that, in very spite Of all his teeth, ne'er came to light, For though he knew his skull had _grinders_, Still there turned up no _organ_ finders, Still sages wrote, and ages fled, And no man's head came in his head-- Not even the pate of Erra Pater, Knew aught about its pia mater. At last great Dr. Gall bestirs him-- I don't know but it might be Spurzheim-- Tho' native of a dull and slow land, And makes partition of our Poll-land; At our Acquisitiveness guesses, And all those necessary _nesses_ Indicative of human habits, All burrowing in the head like rabbits. Thus Veneration, he made known, Had got a lodging at the Crown; And Music (see Deville's example) A set of chambers in the Temple; That Language taught the tongues close by, And took in pupils thro' the eye, Close by his neighbor Computation, Who taught the eyebrows numeration. The science thus--to speak in fit Terms--having struggled from its nit, Was seized on by a swarm of Scotchmen Those scientifical hotch-potch men, Who have at least a penny dip, And wallop in all doctorship, Just as in making broth they smatter By bobbing twenty things in water: These men, I say, made quick appliance And close, to phrenologic science; For of all learned themes whatever, That schools and colleges deliver, There's none they love so near the bodles, As analysing their own noddles; Thus in a trice each northern blockh
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