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    There is a world above and a world below , and if people will build such monotonous houses , like the four-and-twenty fiddlers f all of a row / where is the wonder if we turn to the chimnies for a little variety ? And there is a world of matter of fact , and a world of imagination , and unless my readers can step with me into the latter , with no help from the former but a chimney-pot for a walking-stick , they may pass over the page that will appear to them but

    * As the smoke , like flag upfurling , Above the blackened chimney curling / As there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in Horatio ' s philosophy , so there are more things in the ups and downs of chimney existence , than are dreamt of in ours . A word or two , and see if your next walk within sight of

    the far-famed blackened pottery groves of which London may boast , does not help to discover them . See there ' s a goodly row ! What are they like ? A set of pandeans for iEolus . If I were a wind I would ' blow' till I cracked my cheeks in whistling an air along the goodly pipes . A terrible blow for the cooks ! but if it would hasten the time when one shall do the work of twenty , one lire the work of one house , one chimney the work of that fire , we would say , * Blow high ! blow low ! let the black soot scare The cook beside the board . *

    Look at that row of houses ! Think of the twenty breakfastings , dinings , and suppings ; twenty troubles in c housekeeping , ' ay , troubles , unless the mistress of the menage have a penchant for putting her mind into mahogany and rosewood , her capabilities into creams and custards , and her perceptions into pies and puddings ; where all mig ht be done by one ; without that stimulus to the selfish and degrading vanity of keeping a better table than

    your neighbour . What do you say to it , you group of chimney gossips , stunt and steady , with one taller than the rest for your oracle ? And you , little Miss Beffin of a one , with not a leg to stand upon , and your arms cut off at the shoulders , what do you say to such doings ? are you not ashamed to be smoked by such people ? We hear of people ' eating their own words / it is , in

    other phrase , but consuming their own smoke . Look to it chimnies , and do not any longer be imposed upon . There is a group , like soldiers , square-shouldered , compact , regular , awaiting the word of command—not to fire be it hoped ; and there are two friends who have remained firm to each other through wind and weather ; their bases parted , their tops meeting , like to , but happier than , the two willows on the seal— ' Fate sepa-

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    A CHAPTER ON CHIMNIES .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/57/