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livid white one. A crowded room, and an 

 over-heated atmosphere throw him off his food. 



No longer he breathes the fresh air, or hears 

 the skylark's morning carol. Feeble and un- 

 nerved, he abandons his new trade, and seeks 

 some other service. Cloacina's nightly agent 

 engages him ; and the poor lad is doomed to 

 work hard in a line of business, as low and ab- 

 horrent as his former one was high and agree- 

 able. Not relishing this (and no wonder), he 

 sighs for the purer air of his former calling. 

 But an act of Parliament prevents his being 

 engaged. In despair, he turns vagabond. At 

 last, the constable introduces him to the magis- 

 trate, and the magistrate to the treadmill for 

 three months. 



Our houses already begin to suffer for the 

 Joss of their late useful and healthy little 

 climbers. The new sweeping apparatus is 

 found to be utterly inefficient, and even detri- 

 mental in its operation ; for, on reaching the 

 chimney-top, it is apt to knock off the pot, and 

 will sometimes bring a lot of bricks down the 

 chimney. 



Chimney-tops at best are generally in bad 

 order. There seems to be an everlasting 



