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situations, and will flourish in the smoke of 

 large towns. 



We remember its covering the entire end 

 of a house in Mortimer Street, in London, 

 where rural scenes and rural sounds are so 

 much out of fashion, that the owner, we are 

 told, cut down this American climber to pre- 

 vent having his house indicted as a nuisance, 

 for harbouring sparrows, whose twittering 

 commenced too early in the morning for 

 those whose evening parties begin at mid- 

 night. These little chirping choristers may 

 not think themselves singled out by this per- 

 secution, since Handel himself was indicted 

 for calling forth the strains of the organ at 

 too early an hour for the fashionables in that 

 quarter of the town. 



We cannot forbear relating, in this place, 

 the singular devastation that was committed 

 on some rural scenery, in a street leading out 

 of the Strand, where the wife of a respectable 

 tradesman, who never passed her 



" brick-wall bounds 



To range the fields and treat her lungs with air, 

 Yet felt the burning instinct — over head," 



on the leads of her house contrived to form 

 a grove of myrtles, geraniums, and such other 

 plants as Covent Garden affords. Thus she 



