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    . XXXV.—SEAMSTRESSES - AGAIN.

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    cit Everybody knows that November lias a...

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    . Xxxv.—Seamstresses - Again.

    . XXXV . —SEAMSTRESSES - AGAIN . A STORY OF CHUISTMAS EVE , . _~^^ Sm— ¦

    Cit Everybody Knows That November Lias A...

    _Everybody knows that November lias a trick of lunging tlie

    p bath city— . houses On such , and mornings steeples , and those lamps who , and have all— len into t a of sort of vapor and p

    those nothing who 1 to do have , make plenty dismal to , do grimaces and little as they of money quit y their , shrug money beds " ; their and

    hasn shoulder unlovel 't a y s face leasant as of they the look creep sk for y : along yes , bod for the the wh streets il sk e y the has , looking fit got lasts the ruefull jaundice y at , and the pany

    But the gloomy month was past y , and people congratulate . d thems tion elves for on a having little while got rid at of least that . uncomfortable But November washing and Decemb -day er sensa are

    -, it nearl was y that akin , on and the closel twent y resemble -fourth of each the other last-named in disposition month ; London and so y

    fitful ¦ was , over mocking head fogs and ears which in gather a raw , and chill disperse y fog . It in was three one quarters , of those of

    , p a lay minute ing at ; the bo-peep sky was with saffron the citizens and cerulean to the extreme by turns disgust , and seemed of the

    , great Genteel majorit reader y , wlio have have something temerit else to h do to than play at me anything to the . you

    city on such a morning , as this ? You y enoug can drive accompany in your _carriag-e , of gate course , , for but the we shoes shall have of carri to alight horses near n St ever . Giles strike Without fire , from Cripp the

    leage flinty pavement of those streets along- which we must trudge on foot . * Neither Mr . Hansom ' s cabsnor anybodelse ' s cabshave

    busiseem ness here to have , Mr . been Pickford made ' s vehicle with , reference s being y eli to g their ible onl accommodation , y . The any streets

    insingle file , and you always see one or two standing as if rooted , while others are moving along with hearse-like precisionShould

    . two do " or at three some pairs corner of well horses then happen there to are snort a and sudden means " How of d ma 'ye

    naging which we need , not describe : the backing ways , and bawling , and evinced swearing by are sensible all imag horses ined to , as anything is also like the retrogression great reluctance . usually

    building At such juts a corner unreasonabl it is that y forwar we _now dand pa . use is . defended The ang h le short of a lofty iron

    posts of prodigious strength , which , are placed around y the kerb . Some of these _jDOsts have a very lazy appearance , and show a decided

    inclination to lie clown . There is nothing remarkable in this , for strength and laziness are generally allied , while feebleness and

    labor may not hope for a divorce . A pair of foldindoors swing dumblon their hinges at this

    g y corner , and near to these is a sort of passage , or entry , by winch

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/19/