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Sauce for .............. 203

Cleaning, Drying, Corking,
Tying down, Stoppering, and
Unstoppering

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Picture XXIII. - Steam Navi-
gation and its Originators..
Picture XXIV.-The Press and
the Bible...
Picture XXV.-The Bible and
Martyrs of the Reformation.... 189
Picture XXVI.-The School.... 247
Picture XXVII. Treatment of
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Gardener's Privileges..........
Genius, Men of

Puzzles.............................................. 51, 91, 181
Rebuses................. 61, 121, 181
91, 121

Riddles.....
Transpositions ................ 61, 91|

As a general rule the Answers to

Enigmas, &c., upon any given page will

be found at the termination of the

Pastime which next occurs.

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Happiness

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Death's Final Conquest.......... 342
December, To
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Departed, The .................. 293
"Excelsior"

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Heat of the Globe ............... 254 Our Office........................ 44 Statuettes, Cleaning Plaster of Heraldry .............. 130 Paint Spots..................... 51 Paris..... lierbarium ...................... 26 Pantomime...................... 171 Stockings, Mending............................ Hotchpot... .......... 134 Parental Restraint Impositions .............................................. 10, 115 Indigo ........................ 237 Influenza....

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Insects for Cabinets, Killing.... 92
Insurance, Life..
183
Interest...

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143 Storm-Glasses

Parthenon ................................................... 220 Straw Bonnets, Brown Dye for
Penny Post...................................................... 157 St. Bernard, Convent of ............................
Pens, Quill...................... 232 Sugar Canes in Spain .......

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Penshurst Park....... ......................... 193; Sunlight, Talbotype, &c. ....... 273

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Perspirations of the Feet ........
Peter v. Paul.........
Pin Money ..........

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227 Tuin, To become
Photography, Improvements in.. 166 Tontine.......
Plantain Tree......
192 Tooth-brushes

Plants, Anatomy of.............. 249
Poetry

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Invalids, Clothing for............ 82
Japans
Jellies and Pies, To improve.... 234
Jewellery.......
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Trees ........
Kettle, Steam from a ............ 263
46 Unicorns in the Royal Arms of
Knitting, Patterns for............ 174 Pomatum, Colouring and Scenting 85 England
Lantern-fly...................................................... 277 Porcelain...
164 Ventriloquism ............. 274
Lamp, Argand .................................................. 165 Portland Vase............. 182 Vinegar Plant.................... 116
Language...................................... 31 Postage..................................................... 40 Vineyards, English...... 197

Leeches

Letters

Cheap .... • 50, 203 .... 78, 108 Potatoes Used in Washing........ 210 Linen, To Extract Grease Spots Poultry and Game.......................................... 200 from........................ 50 Preserves..........

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16 Prize Conundrums .............. 63
221 Quails
45 Raffles

Loam.......... A........................................ 163 Rice, Mother-of-pearl from...... 126
Lobsters, choosing ......... 246 Roman Banners.............af........... 27
Locks, Secure .................. 175 Roman Ides........ ...panaq...ica 257
London Stone.................................................... 156 Sago Bread, To make
Lotteries, State.................
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Weather Prophets, Animal.
Wedding Breakfast............. 226
Cards ..................
Will-o'-the-wisp
Windows

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Savings' Bank...........

Lucifer Matches, without Sulphur 195
Manuscripts, Soiled.............. 176

Scarlet Dye for Ivory, &c.........

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FOR THE ACCUMULATED CONTENTS OF THE FIRST FOUR VOLUMES, REFER TO THE
QUADRUPLE INDEX AT the end of VOL. IV.

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THE SIMPLE HISTORY OF A FAMILY FRIEND.

I BELIEVE that, generally speaking, it is customary when penning the biographies of illustrious individuals, to commence with their birth; but in the simple memoir that I am about to chronicle, the subject of which possessed accomplishments and virtues that deserved to be known beyond the narrow circle in which it was his fate to move, no such important record will be found. The fact is, I know not where he was born. A mystery-an impenetrable mystery, enshrouds his earlier days; and though I would gladly take up my staff and make a pilgrimage to the place of his nativity-if the locality of that sacred spot could be identified-I fear that I must content myself with calling in the aid of fancy, and satisfy the reader's curiosity and my own enthusiasm with an ideal portrait. Imagination depicts that unknown spot, hallowed by the companionship of youthful genius, as a silent, shadowy forest. Huge trees, whose rugged trunks, furrowed by the waves of Time, were thickly draped in veils of velvet moss, and pale feathery lichen threw their restless shadows far along the brown paths. Round their twisted and gnarled roots, that writhed into the ground like snakes at play, whole sheets of bluebells waved their slender stems, and drooped their heads sorrowfully, like a crowd of captive fairies, over whom the giant trees kept watch and ward. Tall ferns were there, tossing their delicate plumes at every breath of air, as if they were coquetting with the wind, ere they granted it a kiss; while through the waving canopy of foliage overhead shot some stray beams of sunlight, that, like the elfin forester of the legend, turned into evanescent gold the withered leaves that lay below. All was dim, shadowy, and full of that solemn mystery that dwells in woodland solitudes; VOL. V,-NO. XLIX.

scarce a sound broke the stillness. A falling leaf-a goid-crowned wren, snapping up an adventurous fly-a hare rushing across some distant vista in the trees, were all the indications that Nature gave of her active existence; and were it not for these, one might have deemed that the denizens of that silent forest had been bound by the spell of dreamless slumber that held the beautiful maiden, chained in her enchanted palace.

This spot hath Fancy chosen as the birthplace of my hero.

"But his name?" cries the impatient reader. Patience, hasty mortal, and I will give you a formal introduction.

Do

Look up there, where that slender bough has interlaced his slender offshoots until they have formed a leafy cradle! you not see a small round object, clasped as it were in the amorous embrace of the young tendrils of that stout old tree? You do! Excellent! Now look close, you perceive that it is a tiny vase-a cup-a chalice of such delicate workmanship, that Benvenuto the Mad never wrought anything so exquisite. Slender fibres of pliant plants are woven and interlaced together, in an inextricable web, modelled and rounded into a species of inverted dome. A border of green moss, cemented wonderfully to the edge, forms a charming frosted emerald rim around this beautiful chalice.

"Stay!" cries this eternally interrupting reader, why this is only a bird's nest."

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Wonderful sagacity! singular penetration! May your shadow never be less, my friend! You have discovered it-it is only a bird's nest! Climb on one of those thick boughs, and just peep into this little habitation. You will see there, comfortably reclining in the white wool and

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