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haps they would then disdain to hang on at St Ste- 

 phen's, the contemptible retainers (all but in livery) 

 of some intriguing member of the cabinet, like 

 hungry jackals (call-jack), for the pickings their 

 master might leave them. 



Having now looked at the general bearing of our 

 subject, we shall approach it a little closer, to ex- 

 amine the facts, inductions, and minutiae of the 

 practice. 



When we first heard of Sir Henry Steuart's ce- 

 lebrated discoveries and new system of moving about 

 large live trees, and read Sir Walter Scott's declara- 

 tion, that Birnam wood might now in reality come 

 down living to Dunsinane, we were disposed to hold 

 Sir Henry a magician, and were not a little alarmed 

 lest grown up trees might indeed acquire, under his 

 art, the locomotive power, and gallop about, to the 

 no small terror and danger of his Majesty's subjects; 

 but, on closer examination, we find all Sir Henry's 

 art resolve itself into transferring them from one 

 hole into another, by the labour of real men and 

 horses, without injuring the trees to such a degree 

 as preclude hope of recovery under proper subse- 

 quent attention. His mode of performing this may 

 be stated shortly as follows : — 



1st, Procure sturdy subjects, not drawn up tall 



