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    spikes , on the summit of the chamber abore , and call them traitors * Such doings as these it was which taught the revolutionary mobs in France to mangle the bodies of their vanquished rulers . In modern days the gate is made to serve the purpose of some antique city fooleries ; it also serves for heralds to knock against , when peace is proclaimed , dressed in laced jackets like chimney sweeps on May-day , and sundry other absurdities . There is a new church erected just beyond the gate on the left . Were St . Dunstan to come to life again , he would take the architect by the nose with his tongs , for spoiling so much good stone . It is as great a nuisance to the eye-sight as the former buildiner was to the roadwav . -

    ^ ^ j What crowds of people are in the streets \ This glorious day has brought forth people of all temperaments , those who seek pleasure as well as the animated machines of business . The sun has kindled the fire of humanity . Mark , boy , how numerous are the intellectual faces which pass us . Ay , even in the men of business whose hands are worn in their pockets , as a cheap substitute for gloves , while ten per cent , is written in their countenances , even in many of them may be marked the outward and visible signs that mind is within them , wanting but training to bring it forth . That is a banker ' s clerk ; you may swear to him by his coat close buttoned to guard the sacred pocket-book , and the long strides he takes in order that he mav eret back bv three o ' clock . His age seems about

    nineteen , his salary may be some fifty pounds per annum , and his friends have given security for his honesty , to the amount of five thousand pounds . Mark his keen eye , which glares with impatient disappointment , and fierce hatred of his drudgery . Ere three years elapse he will fall a prey to consumption , engendered by withered hope . God ! were thy creatures made to be thus marred ? He js one of eight children , and population has pressed against the means of subsistence beneath his father ' s roof . And it was considered essential to make him a gentleman . He is but one of myriads labouring under the

    same evil , and till people shall become wiser , the evil will go on . Look at those endless rows of shops , which are simply contrivances of competition how five people shall do the work of one , and all get badly paid alike . Mark the shops that look gayer than the others , where women ' s gear is sold . There are some twenty young men in each , of capable bodies and incapable minds , measuring out trifling webs of various looms . Were the master of one of those shops to make known that he wanted another hand , he would have an hundred applications within the next twenty-four hours ; and the poor creatures can do nothing else in the world but measure tapes , and ribbons , and laces , for which they get the wages of domestic servants . And yet they are well-grown men , and had they been properly trained would have made good colonists for Van Diemen ' s Land , or the Swan River , or the Cape of Good Hope .

    The carts and coaches make so much noise I can scarcely hear you speak . They make a noise like the rushing sound of the river ford at the pass of Las Vacas when the water rises above the saddle flaps , and echoes to the mountain masses above and around . I remember it , boy , as well as the yell of the mule when the torrent

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    Juvenile Lessons . * 687

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1833, page 687, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2624/page/27/