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frivolous pretexts, in china pantries invariably, where he always
breaks everything. Mothers are particularly cautioned against trust-
ing their babies to his care. He is addicted to conceal those precious
charges behind heavy articles of furniture, which he always upsets

on them.

PLL SISSIES

MR. 0. SMITH.

HERE is something so terrible about
the prestige attached to this gentle-

   

man’s name, that few are hardy enough
even to speculate as to his probable
mode of existence. The general im-
pression is, that he lives in the neigh-
bourhood of Saffron Hill, where he
has a private still in his back kitchen,
and a coiners’ cave underground.
That when he goes home at night,
he lets himself in, as a matter of taste,

with a crow-bar instead of a latch-key ; and prefers smoking his pipe

by the light of a dark lantern. That he was, somehow or other,
implicated in the burning of the Houses of Parliament ; building the

principal parricade at the Revolution of June; blowing up the Cricket

steamer; and murdering Eliza Grimwood.