He is like a child
restored to the mother's breast; and they who first spread out
these noble parks and magnificent pleasure-grounds which surround
this huge metropolis have done at least as much for its health
and morality as if they had expended the amount of cost in
hospitals, prisons, and penitentiaries.
THE BOAR'S HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.
A SHAKESPEARIAN RESEARCH.
"A tavern is the rendezvous, the exchange, the staple of good
fellows. I have heard my great-grandfather tell, how his
great-great-grandfather should say, that it was an old proverb
when his great-grandfather was a child, that `it was a good wind
that blew a man to the wine.'"
MOTHER BOMBIE.
IT is a pious custom in some Catholic countries to honor the
memory of saints by votive lights burnt before their pictures.
The popularity of a saint, therefore, may be known by the number
of these offerings. One, perhaps, is left to moulder in the
darkness of his little chapel; another may have a solitary lamp
to throw its blinking rays athwart his effigy; while the whole
blaze of adoration is lavished at the shrine of some beatified
father of renown. The wealthy devotee brings his huge luminary of
wax, the eager zealot, his seven-branched candlestick; and even
the mendicant pilgrim is by no means satisfied that sufficient
light is thrown upon the deceased unless he hangs up his little
lamp of smoking oil.
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