Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse Author:Thomas Hood Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SCHOOL FOR ADULTS. Servant. Son. Servant, How well you saw Your father to school to-day, knowing how apt He is to play the truant. But is he... more » not Yet gone to school ? Stand by, and you shall see. Enter three Old Men with satchels, singing. All Three. Domine, Domine, duster, Three knaves in a cluster. Son. O this is gallant pastime. Nay, come on ; Is this your school! was that your lesson, ha st Old Man. Pray, now, good son, indeed, indeed— Son. Indeed Y'ou shall to school. Away with him ! and take Their wagships with him, the whole cluster of them. Id Old Man. You shan't send us, now, so you shan't— 3d Old Man. We be none of your father, so we be'nt.— ' Son. Away with "em, I say; and tell their school mistress What truants they are, and bid her pay 'em soundly. All Three. Oh ! oh! oh! Lady. Alas! will nobody beg pardon for The poor old boys ? Traveller. Do men of such fair years here go to school 1 Native. They would die dunces else. These were great scholars in their youth ; but when Age grows upon men here, their learning wastes, And so decays, that, if they live until Threescore, their sons send 'em to school again : They'd die as speechless else as new-born chil- dren. Traveller. "Tis a wise nation, and the piety Of the young men most rare and commendable : Yet give me, as a stranger, leave to beg Their liberty this day. Son. 'Tis granted. Hold up your heads ; and thank the gentleman, Like scholars, with your heels now. All Three. Gratias ! Gratias! Gratias ! [Exeunt Singing.] " The Antipodes,"—By R. Brome. Amongst the foundations for the promotion of National Education, I had heard of Schools for Adults; but I doubted of their existence. They were I thought, merely the fancies of old dram...« less