152 TWELETH EVENING,

leaves, twisted it into wicker-work, and trailed the
ductile foliage around the light basket. He has filled
our cabinets and chimney-pieces with urns, lamps, and
vases, on which are lightly traced, with the purest
simplicity, the fine forms and floating draperies cf
Herculaneum. In short, he has given to our houses a
classic air, and has made every saloon and every dining-
room schools of taste. i should add, that there is a
great demand abroad for this elegant manufacture. The
Empress Catherine of Russia had some magnificent ser-
vices of it; and subsequently a service was sent to the
King of Spain, intended as a present from him to the
Archbishop of Toledo, which cost a thousand pounds.
Some morning you shall go through the rooms in the
London warehouses.

fien. I should like very much to see manufactures,
now you have told me such curious things about them.

fa. You will do well. There is much more enter-
tainment to a cultivated mind in seeing a pin made,
than in many a fashionable diversion which young
people half ruin themselves to attend. In the mean
time I will give you some account of one of the most
elegant of them, which is paper.

flen. Pray do, my dear father.

fa, It shall be left for another evening, however
for it is now late. Good night.

TWELFTH EVENING.

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A LESSON IN THE ART OF DISTINGUISHING.

#, Come hither, Charles. What is it that you see
grazing in the meadow before you ?

C. lt is a horse.

Hf, Whose horse is it P

C. I do not know; I never saw it before.

_ &. How do you know it is a horse, if you never saw
it before ?