While piles of club and rocker skates

While piles of club and rocker skates Of every shape the buyer waits! Though second-hand, I'm sure they'll do, And serve our wants as well as new. That place we'll enter as we may, To-morrow night, and bear away A pair, the best that come to hand, For every member of the band." At once, the enterprise so bold Received support from young and old. A place to muster near the town, And meeting hour they noted down; And then retiring for the night, They soon were lost to sound and sight.

When evening next her visit paid To fold the earth in robes of shade, From out the woods across the mead, The Brownies gathered as agreed, To venture boldly and procure.