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years dead ; but a young man who worked for him when alive, who has 

 partly succeeded to his business, and with it has inherited much of his 

 ingenuity, was the maker of those you saw, and from which the sketches 

 are taken. A more civil, honest, and industrious young man than Charles 

 Stenning can hardly be met with any where ; and as such I hope he will 

 meet with patronage, particularly in an article so really useful, and so su- 

 perior in every respect to the kind generally made. With these pegs, it 

 will readily be perceived, there is no chance of tearing or soiling the clothes, 

 as might happen with the common sort bound with tin ; and I need only 

 say that some have been in use seventeen years, to convince any one 

 accustomed to using the others, of the much greater durability of those 

 made by Charles Stenning. In fact, they are not continually splintering, 

 as every housewife will say of the common kind; and the much longer time 

 they will last would alone make amends for their being a little more 

 expensive at the beginning, if they had not the additional reconnnendation 

 of a m.uch neater and cleanlier appearance, and, if a laundry-maid may be 

 allowed some share of delicacy, that they will never tear her hands. 



I will only trespass farther on your patience to add that the first peg 

 (fg. 68.) is of the original pattern ; the others (69. and 70.) being turned 

 from sketches made by a gentleman, under the idea that a little alteration 

 in shape could not affect their utility, whilst it might add to the improve- 

 ment of their appearance. — C. P. iSurrey, April 9. 1831. 



