The Little Stamp Collector

Thrcc montlis ago bfl (til not kimw His lesson in geogntphyl Thoujjh he could spe II and n ;id quite wcll, And cipher to, he could not teil The least Lhing ia topography, But what a ch:inge ! How puting strangc ! This stamp collccting passioa Has roused his zcal, for woe or weal, And lists of nauei he now can rtcl Off, in amazing fat-hion. I hear him speak of Mozamluque, HellKoIand, Havana Cashmerc, Japan, Tibet, Sondan, Sumatra, Swain, Waldeck, Kohan, Khaloon, Siam, Butguria, - Schleswig-Holsteln foh I boy of mine. Genius witliout a tcach rij, Wales. Panama. Seinde. Bolívar, Jellelabad and Candahar, Cabul, Dcctnii, Helvc-tiu. And now helónos for more Hong-KoDgs, A Hampour. a Mauritius. Greecc lïornco. Fe nando Po, - And how much else no one can know ! Buthe, kind fates propttiuus !