An Interesting Browning Class A pleasant occasion was the meeting of the Browning class at Dr Utters on Monday Mon-day evening As an expression of their appreciation of the doctors kind services and aid in interpreting inter-preting the obscurities of Browning they had sent him Easter the Century dictionary diction-ary and a cut glass dish to Mrs Utter When the class had assembled Monday evening it being the last for the season Mrs Utter read to them tho following poem Tho prose may serve for daily use I I In common humdrum times Yet there are moments when it seem Ono needs must take to rhymes I Beloved Brownies now I sec That child was surely right I I And these are Brownies that conven Each week on Monday night For Isten just the other eve While all the house was still The door bel suddenly rang out A long melodious thrill Our brisk youngjanitor made haste To open wide the door A pile of volumes huge was seen At first and nothing more Then came a voice I have been askef To bring these books to you Bewildered stood the parsoness And dazed the parson too And when our scattered wits returned No mortal man was near You know the Brownies never go They simply disappear But where be stood we saw a wreath Of flowers bright and pall They lay within a daiuty desk Like a soap bubble frail Perhaps you think my story strange And doubt tae words I say There are the books upon the shelf And there the flowers gay Good luck befall tho Brownies all Health happiness success I Forever may they live and thrive Their shadows neer grow less Next Tall If you will come again When leaves are turning yellow Unterrifled and undismayed Well wrestle with Gordello Though dubious seem the way and dark se will be blithe and merry For Is not every single soul In that big dictionary Thq doctor followed in an expression of thanks which was so worded as to make the class feel that the use of a century die tionary had placed him far above their comprehension Ho assured them they would all become acouttomad to such lang uage when possessed of a hko gift Tho class will assemble again October V I with greatly increased interest in Brown lug S