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ing ice under my feet. The people 

 (those who have beon hizy) arfe chop- 

 ping away with axes the ice, which has 

 grown out of the snows and rains, before 

 their doors, during the winter. The hogs 

 (best of scavengers) are very busy in the 

 streets seeking out the bones and bits of 

 meat, which have been flung out and fro- 

 zen down amidst water and snow, during 

 the two foregoing months. I mean in- 

 cluding the present month. At New- 

 York (and, 1 think, at Philadelphia also) 

 they have corporation laws to prevent 

 hogs from being in the streets. For 

 •:i)hat reason, I know not, except putrid 

 meat be pleasant to the smell of the inha- 

 bitants. But, Corporations are seldom 

 the wisest of law-makers. It is argued, 

 that, if there were no hogs in the streets, 

 people would not throw out their orts of 

 flesh and vegetables. Indeed 1 What 

 would they do with those orts, then ? 

 Make their hired servants eat them ? 

 The very proposition would leave them 

 to cook and wash for themselves. Where^ 

 then, are they to fling these eifects of su- 

 perabundance ? Just before I left New- 

 Vork for Philadelphia, I saw a sow very 

 comfortably dining upon a full quarter 

 part of what appeared to have been a 

 Jlne leg of mutton. How many a family 

 in England would, if within reach, have 

 seized this meat from the sow ! And, are 

 the tyrants, who have broiie;litmy indus- 

 trious countrymen to that horrid state of 

 misery, nevtr to be called to account ? 

 Are they alzi^ays to carry it as they now 

 do 1 Every object almost, that strikes my 

 view, sends my mind and heart back t*? 



