don the front stairs passing buckets,while a band of swells in whitekids (white kids were then fashionable) worked the kitchen-pump,and slopped the water over the brussels carpets. It was a pictur-esque and lively scene for some time. Happily the conflagration was arrested, and everybody enjoyedthe… … THE MIDDLE CHAMBER. 57 to scrape down their sooty sides, and his melodious carol was pipedin the crisp morning air from the topmost stone of our neighborssmoke-stack. T. Auton owned a whiteCade lamb. This animalwore a red morocco collar,and followed its master aboutthe streets. Everywhere T. Auton…
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