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    mass of coal , duly perforated , for a substratum ; and a halfcharred log sticking out , the uriconsumed end gnarled and fantastic looking , with patches of moss yet unshrivelled ; and the blaze above sweeping up like a living pyramid , and parting and breaking into fiery tongues ; and below , caves , and tunnels , and

    deep mazy recesses , with their walls and pillars of solid fire ,, the crypts of Pandemonium , figured with forms and faces grotesque and beautiful manifold , a compound of romance ., utility , and loveliness . There ; wave the poker like a wand , and touch with its tip the magic grottoes gently , and see how they dissolve and break into fairy palaces and gardens , and anon harden and glow

    into massiveness again , the temple and court of the Fire King , blazing defiance against Jupiter Pluvius and all his hosts . Patter away Without there , on the windows ; wax wroth , and rage , and rattle ; * " blow winds , and crack your cheeks ; rage cataracts , and hurricanoes , spout ; ' you only justify and glorify our fire . Draw the sofa closer to it ; that is our bed , ' which

    we will dig up , ' say rather plough , with heels and elbows , and in our semi-recumbency dictate an article that shall make our March Number a banner for the march of intellect , and rush over men ' s souls like the mi ghty winds of the month , whose trumpet-sounds herald a coming spring-time . Adam asks his father the meaning of the name of the month .

    which is explained to him with all due and true etymology ; and the same question is sometimes asked in the other months ; and whether asked or not , it is answered all the same , The paternal respondent is as accommodating as a certain statesman supposed

    Mr . Babbage ' s calculating-machine to be . The statesman had learned , in the intervals of politics , that the machine was a sort of mill to grind calculations ; the question being put into the hopper , and the answer coming out of the spout . And pray , said Wisdom , if the question were not put into the machine , would the solution come out all the same ?

    They then sowed beets , parsnips , carrots , cabbages ,, including some red ones for pickling ; also celery , leeks , parsley , and onions ; and peas for a second crop ; and transplanted cabbage * , which had been sown in the preceding autumn , and the cauliflower plants which were under the glasses : for all which operations we must refer our readers to the book itself . Then comes a

    walk , with the looking out for flowers which were preparing to blossom , and the listening for birds which were going to sin ^ , and a little disserting upon leaf-buds : * the colour is generally delicate ; a light brown , tipped at the end with a soft green .

    And the bud of the horse-chestnut is richly coloured , at the same time it is protected from the rain and damp , by being covered over with a natural varnish , something like turpentine , which no wet can penetrate . ' And then they 'heard the loud and rich song of a throstle , or thrush , which was in a hazel-tree in flower ,

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    142 Adam the Gardener ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/58/