Thev are thrown at our heads they are
stumbling-blocks at our feet; we fall
over them, we quarrel over them, we
weep over them. They are law, church
and physic to us;for do they not preach
sermons anticipate causes celebies
and obligingly show us how to poison
our enemies without being found out,
at least for a very long time 1 They
are the parents of Tichborne trials and
warm the aged bosoms of solemn Chief
justices into glowing panegyrics They
are the soul and support of many a
magazine; they even sustain tne exisr-
miinr tiinw mterestinir publications
1 illustrated naners. and they are the
'Ttl '.
many a home., 1 heir . name is legion:
1 lull Ml are luril luuiuuut. . j ..
ns both of the lunatic and the lover,
n y atmosphere of blue-books.
1 Thy make the industrious idle and
the dle jjdustrioua. They abolish
i thought, and even compete witn stum-
I ir Thev are the manna of the latter
, nalf of the nineteenth century, the
spontaneously-sent food of a literary
desert."
Who is the laziest man T The furni
ture dealer; he keeps chairs and
lounges about all the time.
Youths Column.
The Caolle-BuiIJrr.
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AI It aound f 4tct Ih nurst-ry.
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