Chapter 12 ON THE FIRM GROUND OF BUSINESS

O merry it was in the good greenwood when the goblin and

sprite ranged free,

When the kelpie haunted the shadowed flood, and the dryad

dwelt in the tree;

But merrier far is the trolley-car as it routs the witch from

the wold,

And the din of the hammer and the cartridges' clamor as

they banish the swart kobold!

O, a sovran cu