A trio of common Cockroaches (Blatta Germanica), commonly misnamed 

 Black Beetles, are the invaders of the kitchen here represented. 



THE SPIRITS OF HEARTH AND HOME. 



A CHRISTMAS STORY. 



EMORY ! painter of the past ! let us invoke 

 thee ! Ah ! but thou art too busy : we want 

 but a single subject, and now, with a few 

 touches of thy magic pencil, thou hast brought 

 before us pictures enough of persons and of 

 scenes to furnish an entire gallery, pictures self-arranged, of 

 which the clearest and the warmest-tinted are those most distant. 

 First, there is a landscape, half rural, half marine, of a 

 village near the Kentish coast, an old-fashioned quiet little 

 village, with its heavy-headed chimneys appearing here and there 

 amidst embowering elm-trees ; more distant, the square spireless 



