THE 



WORLD'S LUMBER ROOM 



A Gossip about some of its Contents 



BY 



SELINA GAVE. 



" I regarded myself as one of those vile things that Nature designed 

 should be thrown by into her lumber room, there to perish in obscurity." 



Vicar of Wakefield. 



" Old decays but foster new creations ; 

 Bones and ashes feed the golden corn." 



Charles Kingsley. 



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