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pair of those cleverly-constructed habitations, wherein, unmo- 

 lested by " oppressive steams" of sulphur, the little workers 

 may mingle business and pleasure through successive genera- 

 tions, and, occupied in their glazed tenements, may work under 

 the very eye of royalty, and under the sunshine of that queenly 

 smile wherein the quaker and his bees have basked together ? 



After this, what woman of fashion can fail to look upon a 

 glazed hive, on the. American, or some yet newer principle, as 

 a piece of furniture quite as requisite to the balcony of her 

 drawing-room as a mirror to its walls ? 



And believe us, my lady, when thou art tired of admiring 

 thy person in the latter, thou may est, on turning to the former, 

 find therein no scanty material for the adornment of thy 

 mind! 



