Admire, v. a. to regard with approbation mingled with wonder.'

given with the professed (and sometimes
actual) object of instruction,' it does not
follow as a consequence that any instruction,
and far less that practical wisdom,' is
communicated.

"After this, we must beg to be excused for taking our leave of Mr. Mylius, at the fifth page of his 'School Dictionary,' as we perceive there are in all two hundred and sixty-five, which we should be sorry to wade through without good wages."

ORIGINAL PAPERS. THE LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT. (Continued from our last.)

'Affable, a. willing to be spoken to; courteous.' "Willing to be spoken to! Who then is The Parent's Cabinet of Amusement and "This is the classical meaning of admire, not affable? Persons labouring under rack- | Instruction, we are happy to find goes on certainly, of ad and miror, to wonder at; ing toothach, swoln face, tic doloureux, lock-successfully. It is a little work which pabut not a good meaning to give a child, un-jaw, melancholy, or other physical or mental rents would do well to learn the merit of. less the pupil be at the same time taught to infirmity, we presume; for we know of no It should be in every family circle. trace its accepted signification from its ety- others who are not willing to be spoken to. [Other Magazines next week.] mological origin, which does not enter into According to our author's definition the Mr. Mylius's plan. We do not contend that naughty women' about London must be the the derivation of the word should have been most affable' persons possible; for they given; but simply that as it is not, the are not only willing to be spoken to, but meaning should not be carried beyond the surprisingly ready to speak to others. We customary sense in which the word admire should have thought that complaisant,' is now us 'd. We admire a pretty woman, condescending,'' easy of manners or of acor her manuers, or her dress, and a thousand cess,' or half a dozen other modes of exother things, without any feeling of wonder.planation, might have been preferred to the Our approbation, as in admiring the works pitiful meaning given. Courteous,' printed of the creation, may be mingled with wonas the second meaning, should be the first, der,' we admit; but this is not the ordinary as it is the best; and if to this were added acceptation in which the word admire is used, complaisant, easy of manners,' affable would and therefore should not be the only meaning be well defined. which a child should be taught. Mr. Mylius's definition is too exclusive, which is all we complain of; ifto appreciate highly, to love,' were added, the word would, perhaps,

be explained in all its senses.

Adventure, . an enterprise in which courage

waits to improve upon accident.'

lished adventures of celebrated worthies,

Affect, v. a. to act upon.'

IN treating of this subject in our last number, law is bad in principle, its consequences are we concluded with the remark, that when a necessarily bad also. This is forcibly exemplified in the law of landlord and tenant, the operation of which entails, not only the frauds to be expected from brokers and their men, but paves the way to evasions of other bona fide debts; assists any tenant who is a knave in imposing on his other honest creditors. All laws made for the exclusive protection of an individual interest must, of necessity, have this tendency. For instance, with reference to that of which we are speaking, if, before a landlord puts in his distress, for rent, another creditor, by sueing the tenant, should have obtained possession of his goods under an execution from the sheriff, for the debt due to him, the landlord, on giving a prescribed notice to such sheriff, is entitled to claim a full year's rent, if due to him, or by indedectible collusion pretended

to be due: in which case, the sheriff is bound

"Another meaning of the 'original' kind, intended to be very learned, but in reality egregiously absurd. We may imagine two children, one of whom has studied the erudite Mylius, and the other some of his inferior predecessors, as Johnson or Entick, "This is absolutely a fine meaning; poet- arguing on the signification of this word. ical and imaginative-altogether above the 'Do you know the meaning of the verb ordinary style of a school dictionary. Fancy affect says the former. Yes,' says the 'courage' patiently waiting to improve upon pupil of the obsolete lexicographers, I think accident' in any enterprise, and then conI do. It is used in two senses, at least, as template the excellence of this explanation, we are taught at our school: in one of which by which a child is to be taught the meaning it signifies to influence the passions or feelof the word adventure. Think of all the ings, and in the other to pretend or assumne. adventurers in the lottery, and of all the pub-As our master explains it, if I am sorry or either to pay such claim, (which the landfrom Tom Thumb downwards, Ferdinand glad at any thing, I am affected by it; or if lord's written notice is sufficient to establish,) I pretend to be sorry or glad, I affect, or or to cause his officer to vacate the premises. assume, a joy or sorrow which I do not feel.' This, it is clear, must always be decided by Ah,' replies the pupil of Mylius, I thought the value of the goods of which such officer I should catch you out-I thought you knew has obtained possession. As the landlord's nothing about it. Why, affect signifies to demand must be satisfied before the execution act upon! There is no other meaning given for debt; and as the sheriff's agent is gene to it in Mylius's Dictionary; and Mr. Mylius rally a tolerably good judge of the value of himself, our governess, and Mr. Baldwin, all the goods in his custody, the affair is speedily say that Mylius's Dictionary is the cleverest reduced to arithmetical demonstation. "After claims the bewildered student of Johnson: be any thing left for me?" is a question, "To act upon!' ex- the landlord has taken his claim, will there well, I declare I cannot imagine how affect which, with experience to guide the eye, can be to act upon; but as Mylius is so very admits of very prompt solution. Hence arise clever, he must be right, no doubt; and of what are termed "friendly distresses," which course you understand why the word we are are nothing less than a man who is in pecu

Count Fathom, Tom Jones, ladies of quality and of no quality, ladies of easy and those of uneasy virtue, and of the courage' of

some of them waiting' throughout their

lives to improve upon accident,' though the proprietor of such courage was not in the least aware that it was lying in wait for any such purpose. The youngsters who are to learn meanings from your book, Mr. Mylius, will really be too clever, if such definitions as these be not slightly qualified. Pray let adventure be an enterprise;' (attended with some risk, if you please,) to which add an accident, or event in which a person by chance participates;' or something better,

but plain, Mr. Mylius, something plain. You are teaching young people, and it is not well to be too flowery.

Advice, s. counsel; the communication of prac

tical wisdom.'

book in the world.'*

speaking of is explained as it is? Ouiary embarrassment availing himself of the
dear, no,' cries the other; I don't under-rigour of the law, as between himself and
stand any thing about it; we learn by rote his landlord to evade that which ought to bind
at our school, and if we repeat our lessons him between himself and his other creditors.
correctly, governess never asks any further
questions.'

"That advice is counsel, is certain; but it is counsel good or bad; and therefore 'the Note. An invaluable present to all conduccommunication of practical wisdom,' though tors of academies and the rising generation."-Ada laboured meaning, is an illogical and er-vertisement to the last Edition. By the plan purroneous one. It is, unfortunately, too well known that many persons give very ridiculous advice; ergo, though advice is counsel

sued by the Author in regard to his choice of
meanings, the pupil will be made, as far as it is
in the power of a Dictionary to produce that effect,

a logician and philosopher.”—Author's Preface.

The landlord being made his friend, (whether he in reality owe him any rent or not,) it is in his power to protect his furniture from all processes which may be levied against it by others.

Thus does this law, made for the exclusive protection of landlords, operate at once to their security and to the serious prejudice of others. And it is not merely by using the

To conclude, we would suggest, for valid reasons, that when goods under a distress are valued on the sixth day after the levy, there be two constables present and sworn, instead of one; and that the owner of the goods be allowed to nominate one of the appraising brokers; both of whom are at present virtually appointed by the distraining broker, who in most cases participates with his brethren in the spoils.

literature extant, and which every one can testify is printed on paper.

Many countries were put to the most miserable shifts for an article applicable to the same purposes as that blessing to all nations, paper. Mrs. Necessity has beeu in this case very fruitful, and many of those precocious young stripling inventions, have been brought into the world. The bark of trees was a very common substitute, also leaves of trees; the skin found in the webs of silkworms; thin plates of copper and other metals, dried skins of animals-and much paper has been made, in the East, of vegetables reduced to stuff, and approaching to the present material cotton, and lastly linen.

landlord's paramount claim for the purpose In the first place, by 57 Geo. III, c. 73, | of evading the demands of others, that this which limits the charges on distresses for is illustrated; but the very fact that laudlords rent, a broker, where the sum distrained for Having no great mechanical genius, I have have a claim so paramount suffices to satisfy shall not exceed £20, cannot charge more never had the curiosity to inquire into the most persons in society that theirs is the first than three shillings for the levy, and two modes of manufacturing the various papers debt to be thought of. Hence it is too noto-shillings and sixpence a day for the man left now used, and every particular connected rious that many make a point of paying their in possession; extended by Stat. 7 and 8 Geo. with it before it comes to my hand in the rent regularly, who never pay any thing else IV. c 17, to all distresses for taxes under the form of quires and sheets, is as great a mysat all; and that all whose interest it is to same amount. But why should not the Acttery to me as the rites of Freemasonry. Imkeep a decent house over their heads, lay by proceed, and prescribe the rates at which perials and royals, and super-royals, demys, the rent for their landlords, let who will go such charges should be allowed, in cases posts, copys, foolscaps, and potts, and all short. where the sum distrained for exceeds £20? the rest of them, are to me as unintelligible The very rigour of the law causes, in Is the legislature aware that the practice of as Double Dutch. The splendid devices of many cases, its own defeat. The legislature brokers is to charge a shilling in the pound lions and unicorns, and fleur-de-lis, and having armed landlords with excessive power, for the levy only, in cases above £20? If crowns, which constitute the water marks, has, from its abuse, found it necessary, from not, it would be well they were; and in con- are worthy the examination of the curious. time to time, to extend a degree of protec-firmation, we know a case of recent oction towards their tenants; and hence there currence, in which the rent levied for being are many points of which a roguish tenant £50. the sum charged for levy was fifty may avail himself, to the discomfiture of even shillings; three shillings and sixpence a day the sharpest landlord; such as moving before for the man left in possession; and so in the rent has become due on the premises, by proportion for the condemnation of the goods, which the landlord loses his summary remedy, sale, &c. and has no power even to "follow the goods," as it is termed; that is, as the rent never accrued while the goods were on his premises, he cannot take them by distress from any place in which they may afterwards be deposited. And even though the rent had actually fallen due before the goods were moved, it seems clear, from decided cases, that if the moving were not clandestine, (that is, if the goods were effectually and openly got off the premises, between sunrise and sunset,) the landlord cannot "follow" them, in the sense before explained. Neither can he avail him- STILL it was not "quite correct" to say I self of his remedy, even though the moving wrote on a table. It is the paper, which, had been clandestine, if before he attain the lying on the table, receives the ink as it flows opportunity of resorting to his distress, the from the pen, the which formeth letters, goods be “sold, bona fide, to a purchaser, for words, and sentences, as guided by the hand; a valuable consideration!"* The innumer-consequently the proper expression is, to able frauds which such laws engender, it write upon paper. I therefore essay to write were needless to dwell on. The cause of all a chapter of or concerning paper, in an is this; that the exclusive and arbitrary re abstract sense, on or upon sundry sheets or medy given to landlords being radically im- pieces of substantive, tangible paper. politic and unjust, every attempt to qualify or An antiquarian historical research into the modify the system serves only to aggravate it, origin of paper, although it is what I should by opening, on the other side, a wider door to delight in, would, I fear, be too dry a subject chicanery and corruption. How easy for a prac- for many of your readers. I shall therefore ised knave to take a house, and move, from refrain from discussing the respective merit quarter to quarter, just before the quarter's of the different papers mentioned by ancient rent falls due! How easy, by ascertaining writers; such as the Hieratica, appropriated the landlord's absence, or knowing the dis-to religious purposes; the Augusta, and tance at which he resides, to move suddenly, Lavinia, named after that Roman emperor but openly and in the face of day, even after and his wife; the Emporetica, said to be rent is due! And again, how much more easy than all, if the goods are once got off the premises, to show a "bonâ fide sale to a purchaser for a valuable consideration!" If these are the bungling enactments to bolster up an oppressive and unnecessary law, what opinion cau fairly be formed of the law itself, and its supporters?

CHAPTER ON PAPER.

Dried skin, or parchment, is a very ancient and extensively used material; it is principally employed for legal documents, that they may withstand the rough handling of disappointed heirs, greedy creditors, and dreading debtors. I must say, I think it a much more certain way of preserving the memory of any transaction to create many copies thereof and disperse them. The solitary individual, though engraved in adament, may by some fatality be destroyed; but where numerous copies exist, the chance of oblivion is greatly reduced.

Wilfully to destroy a white sheet of paper is, in my opinion, a sacrilege, as it has been dignified by a comparison with the mind of man. And considering the weal or woe, which even the smallest slip of paper is capable of conferring upon mankind, according to the character with which it is stamped, the smallest scrap should be preserved with care.

Without paper, how could the beautiful and pure doctrines of Christianity have been disseminated; and following in its track that ameliator of human misery, Civilization. Without paper, whereby to promulgate the laws, how could the most sapient statesmen or learned senators govern a nation? Without paper, how could the philosopher having

"learned the laws

Of nature, and explored her hidden cause!" and dispense them throughout the world for the benefit of his fellows? Paper is the mirror

used by the shopkeepers of those days, and I suppose, corresponding with our whitedbrown or tea paper; the Amphitheatrica, from being used in the Amphitheatre; and many others, named after the places in which they were manufactured or used; as well as after the names of their makers. All these papers were made from the papyrus plant, We could extend our remarks to much from which the article derives its name, and greater length, but that our limits, and a it has been asserted, as a proof of its anti-in which the lustre of merciful consideration for our reader's pa-quity, that books of this kind of paper were tience, forbid. There are a minor point or found in the tomb of king Numa, who was two, however, connected with the practices of brokers, which, so long as the law under which they are permitted to act is tolerated, may be worthy of a concluding observation. • 2 Geo. II. c. 10.

buried more than three centuries before
Alexander; but as a convincing and undeni
able proof of its much greater antiquity, I
shall adduce the Bible, which is generally
acknowledged to be the most ancient piece of

"the poet's eye

In a fine frenzy rolling"

is reflected.

It is the

"local habitation and the name" in which he embodies "airy nothings and things unseen." It can with equal facility

[than the heathen gods, either of the Greeks,
Romans, or Egyptians. Indeed, though its
worship has no outward forms or ceremonies,
'tis the heart's idol of the greater part of
mankind-nay, it has been said

be converted into the reins of government, | With what cagerness does it stretch out its the sword of justice, the tablet of history, hands to obtain that which in its future life the trumpet of fame, the arrow of calumny, will be the aider of his joy, and the abettor and the breath of eury. It is the handmaid of his sorrow. Then, as soon as the child of philosophy, and the battlefield of contro- can retain in its grasp that mighty weapon versy, whose weapon is the pen. It is a the pen, though powerless in its hand as a y "Money is the only power chameleon, the colour of whose character is two edged sword, how it delights to mark That all mankind fall down before." obtained from whatever is applied. and countermark with the dark ink, on the The influence of the newspaper on the The Muses,daughters of Jove, and queens pure paper, wondering at its own skill. destinies of mankind is great. It proclaims of all harmonious things" must be most as- Then the rather degrading use to which this to the world revointions of mighty empires, suredly acquainted with the birth-day of material is put, when a group of children and the battles of contending nations; it this invention, and doubtless keep it as a mimic the actions and housekeeping of their ministers to the craving appetite of the poi high festival. Paper is their very factotum, eiders, by cutting chairs and tables, and tician; it tells the tradesman of the fall of as necessary to them as a dexter hand, or other miniature furniture; as also, (Promehouses, and the bankruptcy of merchants; right eye. Without paper the lofty musings of thens-like without his crime,) forming rows it informs the fundholder of the price of Calliope and her poetic satellites of the heroic of ladies and gentlemen, ali sticking together, stocks, and his visage lengthens accordingly, stamp would have been lost for ever-their to stand in circles; men with baskets of eggs as they are high or low, its advertisements memory as short lived and transitory as the on their backs, and so on; folding the piantare scanned by many an anxious eye, by bursting bubles upon the flowing waters of sheet into boats and belows, cocks and butlers, footmen, cooks, houst maids, &e, Lethe. Without paper, Erato and her love-cocked-hats, and sundry other devices, shew- &c., &c, out of place; it exhibits copions sick swaius would have been deprived of the ing as much ingenuity in their manufacture bills of fare in its "Sales by Auction," to the tender sounets of Anacreon, Little, and as children of a larger growth" in larger speculative monied man; it satiates the Moore; and lovers would only have been able matters. Then the schoolboy, with his head spinster with marvellous accounts of horrible to recite their love-lorn lays in propria per-leaning on his arm, which lies on the desk, accidents and hair-breadth escapes; the poet souâ; while, with its aid, kindred hearts, looking askance at his copybook; forming in embryo finds in a nether coruar the first though separated by raging seas, arid sands, with crabbed fingers crooked pot-hooks and effusions of his pen; the expectant or preor towering mountains, can interchange hangers; by and bye a rap with the cane, and sumptive heir, reads with anxiety the "biths, sweet poetic love effusions, extolling each the oft repeated words "stretch forth your marriages, and deaths;" to the want of every other's virtue and beauty, and making flaws | fingers!" salute his knuckles and his ears one of his Majesty s subjects does it contriand faults, perfections and excellencies. at the same time, rousing him from his lazy bute, more or less. Having run its race of Without paper how limited would have been recumbency. I shall not follow him through usefuluess, its career is closed by fire; and the fame of the devotees of Euterpe! The the gradations of joining hand, text hand, I shall finish this paper on paper, with an soft-sounding dulcet melody of Haydn,small text, round hand, running haud, and account of its obsequies, even therefrom Pleyel, Mozart, and Handel, would have all the rest of the hands, which adorn the drawing a moral reflection, and a wholesome been as transient as the vibrations of the mayhap blotted hook of the schoolboy, lesson, that man's life is as transitory and sounds they inspired in the quivering air. merely remarking, that, at his crisis, he has roving as these sparks: Without paper, Melpomene's tragic effusions no particular liking for the restrictions of and Thalia's comic rhapsodies must have been ruled paper. The themes and exercises, content with the fame of the day, and after notes and annotations, upon classic authors, the run of representation, have sunk into Greek, Latin, and Eugish, of the student, undisturbed oblivion. Without paper Poly- and the various perlections of the school and hymuia and her rhetoricians must have been the college, which give a character to nucontent with the applause of the moment. merous slips and sheets of paper, of all Had paper been more common in his days, sizes and qualities, presenting a mazy medly the cloquence of Hegesias, the philosopher of of the march of mind, from boyhood to manCyrene, might have been preserved, and a hood. With what indescribable sensations sensible check would have been given to po- does the enamoured swain write his first lovepulation, by his auditors killing themselves letter to the object of his passion! The in despair at the gloomy eloquence of his quality of the paper is then of vital import-No novelties have been produced at the descriptions of human misery. Had the ance; the purest sheet of the quire is first Italian Opera House, or at either of the paearly disciples of Terpsichore known paper, chosen, may bap it is of the delicate tint he tent theatres, since our last number went to we would doubtless have been acquainted thinks she most admires; but sheet after press. with the quadrilles, and waltzes, and minnets, sheet is torn to atoms, and scattered on the and gallopades of the gods, and our bali-floor, or to the winds; his mind being, as to rooms thus have had a classic character, and the fashion of the wording of the epistle, as our steps the sanctity of Olympus. Urania changeable and as fickle as mistresses oft and her star-gazers would have been sadly atare-but enough of this, 'tis not a fit object a loss for wherewithal to carry on their for the vulgar gaze. calculations without paper. Wauting this, Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, would have been but of little use to science.

One wonder-working faculty of paper is its capability of taking upon it the value of hundreds, thousands, nay, I have seen one To trace paper through the various stages slip of paper of the value of a million pounds! of life, I may say, with what care is that What good and what evil will not paper do in little slip of paper, so important to us in our this form! Imagine every action good, bad, progress through the world, the certificate of and indifferent; all can be effected, if we our baptism, preserved in the most secret possess but this talisman; every thing is corner of the pocket-book, in the inmost within its power, except happiness, and this, recess of the bureau. The very infant ap- the aim and end of life, temporal or eternal, pears aware of the immense influence of is not to be bought for money or for price. paper on its future destiny, and is moved That paper in this form is capable of impart with delight and its eyes sparkle with joy ating a transient gleam of felicity, is true; and the sound of its crushing in your haud. it is therefore far more worthy of worship

"So when a child, as playful children are, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news (paper),

Pleased with the sight, he views the roving

fire

There goes the lady and there goes the squire,
There
goes the parson, most illustrious spark,
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the
clerk."

DRAMA.

Bookworm.

ADELPHI-Mr. Yates took his benefit on Saturday; and, as it was the last night of the season, delivered the following farewell Address to an overflowing house.

Ladies and Gentlemen,-It is the misfortune of managers to be compelled to lease the most dificult part of their duty till the last. In other cases they say that "Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute." With us it is the last act of the piece that costs us the most,-that of bidding farewell. It is, however, sweetened by the opportunity it affords us of returning our thanks for that patronage which has pleased our hearts, I humbly confess, by filling our pockets. We are not among those who have to complain that our drama wants patronage; and, had we such a complaint, your appearance would cure it. There is, Ladies and Gentlemen, a great deal of talk about the legitimate and illegiti

mate drama. Our dramas are called by the and here to meet for the dispatch of plea-1 after Rusgsdaal, Rubens, and Poussiu, all world illegitimate, and we are willing enough sure." to acknowledge them the natural children of the brains of our authors, and we trust that every thing is natural about them, although

ANECDOTAL, INSTRUCȚIVE, AND MORAL, USEFUL RAT. On the farm of Lyonthoin, near Falkirk, there is a remarkable instance not only of docility but usefulness in a rat. It first devoured the mice caught in traps, and was afterwards seen to catch them as they ventured from their holes, till at length the whole house was cleared of these vermin, except, as is believed, a single one. It has frequently been seen in pursuit of this solitary mouse, and the little fugitive, from taking refuge behind the ingle, has a part of its fur singed off. From the service it renders, the family kindly protect the rat, and it runs about and gambols among them on the floor, A very excellent likeness of this celebrated without the least uneasiness.- Whittaker's danseuse, attitudinizing with consummate (sixpenny) Zoological Mag. No. 3, a new elegance. There is much of grace and elas-and most interesting monthly publication. ticity in the figure, which reflects credit on both the design and its execution.

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lodon, butting against us with the end of its snout, as if to defend the approach to the rock under which it lodged, with many others of the same kind. We stretched out our hands towards it, against which it precipitated itself in the same manner. In order to drive it away we struck it several times, which made it retreat, but without alarming it, for it returned again to the charge. At last it disappeared suddenly in a hole formed by the corals. This species was scarcely larger than one's hand."-Ibid.

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G. F. H.'s" Imitations of Greek and Latin Classics, from the Collection of Scraps lately in the Fossession of his Grandfather," are not adapted for our columns. They will be returned on application at the publisher's.

The "Past and Present State of the Tea-trade," and one or two other works not of immediate interest, must of necessity stand over for another week.

Just published, contains

"The SIMPLE STORY," and "NATURE and ART."
By MRS. INCHBALD. With a Memoir of the

Author, written expressly for this Edition.
Complete in 1 vol. price 6s. with two illustrations.
The following Standard Novels and Romances have
already appeared in this Series, price 6s. each
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By Cooper-The Spy, The Pilot, The Last of the
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Lincoln.

By Godwin-Caleb Williams, St. Leon, Fleetwood.
By Misses Porter-Thaddeus of Warsaw, Scottish
Chiefs, Pastor's Fireside, Hungarian Brothers.
By Galt-Lawrie Todd.

By Misses Lee-The Canterbury Tales.
By B. Brown-Edgar Huntly.
By Schiller-Ghost Seer.

By Mrs. Shelley-Frankenstein.
By Mrs. Brunton-Self-Control, Discipline.
By Madame de Stael-Corinne.

By Miss Austen-Sense and Sensibility-Emma.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington street, (suc
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Exemplification of Watson's Plan for preventing Ships foundering at Sea.

Sectional and Working Models of Steam Engines. Model of the proposed London and Birmingham Railway.

Models of new Framing of Ships, various im. proved Anchors, Rudders, Gun Carriages, Top-mast Fid, Cat-head Stopper, Life-rafts, Life-preservers, and numerous other Apparatus.

A Mouse in a Diving Bell, immersed in waterillustrating the principle and application of the Bell. A Selection of valuable Paintings by the Old Masters, among which will be found some splendid productions of Murillo.

The Royal Seraphine and Harmonica, new Musical Instruments; performed on at intervals.

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