the simple walks of every-day occupation, are
far too mindful of its value not to condemn.
But this poor offensive rope-walker has the
excuse that he risks his own body in order to
maintain the bodies of others ; whilst they who,
satirized in '* The Season," outrage by " their
fantastic tricks " the dignity of humanity, have
not even the insufficient plea of an empty
purse. All that they can appeal to for their
justification is a shallow heart or a vacant brain.
