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"
Seems to me the pills are a good thing," said Omby Amby, who
remembered how it used to make his head ache as a boy to study
arithmetic.
"
They are, sir," declared the Wogglebug, earnestly. "They give us an
advantage over all other colleges, because at no loss of time our boys
become thoroughly conversant with Greek and Latin, Mathematics and
Geography, Grammar and Literature. You see they are never obliged to
interrupt their games to acquire the lesser branches of learning."
"
It's a great invention, I'm sure," said Dorothy, looking admiringly at the
Wizard, who blushed modestly at this praise.
"
We live in an age of progress," announced Professor Wogglebug,
pompously. "It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it
laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends?"
"
Some folks can swallow anything," said Aunt Em, "but to me this seems
too much like taking medicine."
"
Young men in college always have to take their medicine, one way or
another," observed the Wizard, with a smile; "and, as our Professor says,
these School Pills have proved to be a great success. One day while I was
making them I happened to drop one of them, and one of Billina's
chickens gobbled it up. A few minutes afterward this chick got upon a
roost and recited 'The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck' without making a
single mistake. Then it recited 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and
afterwards 'Excelsior.' You see, the chicken had eaten an Elocution Pill."
They now bade good-bye to the Professor, and thanking him for his kind
reception mounted again into the red wagon and continued their journey.
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