themselves the romance of the trade has fled and the of the present day is no more like unto him of thirty years ago than is a fleet street to a spanish or paul to this gradual decay and of the practice of leading noble youths into and compelling them to chimneys was a severe blow if we may so speak to the romance of chimney sweeping and to the romance of spring at the same time but even this was not all for some few years ago the dancing on began to decline sweeps were observed to in or hy green with no my lord to act as master of the ceremonies and no my lady to over the even in companies where there was a green it was an absolute nothing � a mere � and the rarely extended beyond the and a set of better known to the many as a mouth organ these were signs of the times of a coming change and what was the result which they forth why the master sweeps influenced by a restless spirit of actually interposed their authority in opposition to the dancing a dinner � an at white � where clean � appeared in of black ones with rose pink and knee and tops drawers and shoes gentlemen who were in the habit of riding shy horses and people who have no in their souls this alteration to the skies and the conduct of the master sweeps was described as beyond the reach of praise but how stands the real fact t let any man deny if he can that when the cloth had been removed fresh pots and pipes laid upon the table and the customary loyal and patriotic proposed the celebrated mr of and eve whose au not the most malignant of our can call in question expressed himself in a manner following that now he d the s hi he he might be jolly veil blessed if he t a goin to his he say these here � that how some as know d about the had tried to sit people the r and take the shine out o their bis and the bread out o the traps o their by a o this here remark as could be as veil by as by boys and that the use o boys for that there he ad been a � he begged the s for such a more nor thirty year � he might say he d been bom in a � and he know d uncommon veil as nor o no use and as to to the boys every body in the line know d as veil as he did that they the better nor as from this day we date the total fall of tlie last lingering remnant of may day dancing among the of the profession and from this period we commence a new era in that portion of our spring associations which relates to the st of may we are aware that the part of the po w sketches by here with the assertion that dancing on may day still continues � that are seen to roll along the streets � that youths in the garb of them giving vent to the of their fancies and that lords and ladies follow in their wake granted we are ready to acknowledge that in outward show these have greatly improved we do not deny the introduction of on the drum we will even go so far as to an occasional on the but here our end we positively deny that the sweeps have art or part in these proceedings we distinctly charge the with throwing what they ought to clear away into the eyes of the public we accuse and gentlemen who devote their energies to the line with obtaining money once a year under false pi we cling with peculiar fondness to the custom of days gone by and have shut out conviction as long as we could but it has forced itself upon us and we now proclaim to a public that the may day dancers are not sweeps the size of them alone is sufficient to the idea it is a notorious fact that the taste for register has materially increased the demand for small boys whereas the men who under a character dance about the streets on the first of may nowadays would be a tight fit in a kitchen to say of the parlour this is strong evidence but we have positive proof � the evidence of our own senses and here is our testimony upon the morning of the second of the merry month of may in the of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six we went out for a stroll with a kind of forlorn hope of seeing something or other which might induce us to believe that it was really spring and not christmas after wandering as far as house without meeting any calculated to our im op that there was a mistake in the we turned back down with the intention of passing through the extensive colony lying between it and battle bridge which is inhabited by of of of and of through which colony we should have passed without or tion if a crowd gathered round a had not attracted our attention and induced us to pause when we say a shed we do not mean the sort of build ing which according to the old song love when he was a young man but a wooden house with windows stuffed with rags and paper and t small yard at the side with one cart two baskets a few and little heaps of and of china and scattered about it before this inviting spot we paused and the longer we looked the more we wondered what exciting it could be that induced the foremost members of the crowd to their noses against 