The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-12 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGB-STREET.

A DAINTY CIMINEYSWICEP.-412 old couple, named
Parry, living in Thomas-street, who have for the last
thirty years practised all the mysteries of the sable science
of chimney-sweeping, and who have always borne a very
excellent character for the kinds's:is with which they treat

those young aspirants to the honour of the brush and
bag confided to their care, brought Thomas Hinkman, a
sturdy little rogue, before Messrs. CONANT and COAX..
BERS, for having absconded from their employ.
The wife, in consequence of the deafness of her old man,
set forth the manifold enormities from time to time com-
mitted by the sooty delinquent, vowing that for " howda-
ciousness and himperance be banged all as ever she seed
afore, by chalks." For a quarter of a century her old man
had specially attended to the chimbleys of the nobility and
gentry in Grosvenor-square, and had acquired much
reputation therefrom : but his character bad well nigh
been lost by the wilful neglect of the young urchin, who,
on being sent to perform an operation on a chimney, in
the residence of Lord Beauchamp, absolutely ne-
4lected to attend, and thus exposed his master to the
danger of losing his lordship's patronage. In addition
to this ill_conduct the boy had also a little penchant for
pilfering, and, amongst other, offences, she Lad been
obliged ti, keep him a week on bread and water, because
she bad discovered one Sunday, when preparing to take
up the dinner, that the leg of mutton had vanished from
the pot, and that the prisoner knew best how this had
occurred. Ile had latterly chosen to run away entirely,
and therefore she wished to have some pubishment in-

Mr. CONANT—WeII, bay, what do you say for run-
ning away from your master; why did you leave him?
Boy—'Cause Bill Smithery, our foreman, is always a
vhopping me about with the shovel, end 'cause master
hit me rich a precious punch on Sunday arternoon, for
nothing as I know'd on.
Mr. CowAvT—Was the boy struck, as he has stated ?
—Mrs. Parry—Lard bless thee! My old man just
tipped him on the cheek for laughing at the dinner.
Mr. CONANT-What did you have for dinner?—We
bad a lovely bit of salt beef and lots of taterQ, and beauti-
ful br,,coli sprouts, which we are all werry fond on ; but
tny young master there, I suppose, didn't think it was
just good enough for him.
Boy—There's 'totber boy seed master whop me.

Mr. CONANT directed the other boy to be sent for,
and when he arrived asked him what sort of a tap it was
the prisoner received ? Boy—lt warn't a hard 'en.
Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, what was it then ? Boy—
Vy it was a soft 'on. It was so weary soft it wouldn't
have knocked a fly off on him.
The magistrates, professing themselves quite satisfied
that the defendant had no cause of complaint against
his master, committed him to the House of Correction
for a month.

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TRANSFERENCE OF VLTAL POWER.---•A
not uncommon cause of loss of vital power is the young
sleeping with the aged. This fact, however explained,
has been long remarked, and is well known to every un-
prejudiced observer. But it hasbeen
ably overlooked in medicine. I have on several ec,tssions
met with the counterpart of the following case :—I was,
id to
no
specifict five
ailment, m or e
n.
most
aut
gave
a few yeas since, consulted about a pale, sickly, and thin
of b
re-
markable decline of flesh and strength, and of the energy
boy,
of all the functions—what his mother very aptly termed
about
but
tatrs h
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l av
as a slow and ge.
He
p uepaecacrn
gradual blight. After inquiring into the history of
the case, it came out th it he had been a very robust and
plethoric child up to his third year, when his grand-
mother, a very aged person, took him to sleep with her ;
that he soon afterwards lost his good looks ; and that he
had continued to decline progressively ever since, not.
withstanding medical treatment. I directed him to sleep
apart from his aged parent, and prescribed tonics, change
of air, &c. The recovery was rapid. But it is not in
children only that debility is induced by this mode of
abatracting vital power. Young females married to very
o!cl men suffer in a similar manner, though not to the same
extent. These facts are often well known to the aged
themselves, who consider the indulgence favourah'e to
longevity, and thereby often illustrate the sclii,{ ness
which, in some persons, increases with their years —Dr.
al land's Dict. of Prod. Medicine.

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