New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-22

ahe OF uS aor,a ladies'. What with the ps.ri-
can requirements OF Bspacle JUNIOR the three young
ladies Mr. Tile Barnscle nee Siiit-tskihg, "uu IN
self Mr.. Tite Barnsele found NE ih'erVas - h.
ouster day and quarter day rather longer thHn ne
conId hnv, desired-a circumstance which ne always
attributed 10 the countrys paTsmony.
For Mr. Tite Bsrnace Mr.. Arthur Cennsm insle
his fifth inquiry one day at the
spcee..ivey in hall, glais-case, waiting room
ard erc-proof passsge, where the department
seemed TO keep it's wind. On thus ooceSSn mr. pa pa
nscle was Dot engaged, as he esd oSen oeaoa bn,
wa. absent Barnacle Junior, however, was az
uouneed as lesser star yet visible above the '"os
horizon. 1919. -. ., am.
FER and found that young gentleman sngelns tue
calves Of bis legs at the parental hre, anu suppets
bis spine against the mantleshef. IL was eou!o!t
sbe room handsomely furnished in the higher ohcis
manner and presenting stately suggeslons OF INC
.hsent Baracle in the thick carpet, the eather-coy.
cred desk 20 sit at the leatheTcovered deck 10 stand
at the formidable easy-ebsir and headh-Iug, tse
interposed screen the tornup papersl the ospsNn-
bo..s with little labels sticking out of them IKE neai
cine bottles or dead game, the peryading smell OF
leather and mahogany and genera oamoooIAns al
Of How not TO do il. .
in nj, hand had youthful aspect aud the fuftest
little whisker, perhaps that ever was seen. S9Sh
dorny tin was Oh bis calOw chm that ne seemed nan
edstd like young bird ana con no, .;rsed me
calves of his legs he would have died OF cold ne
had superior eye-glass dangling found ms necA, Ou
unfortunately bad such Hat orbits 70 his eyes, anu
sncb linn little eyelids that il wouldn't stick IN when
he mi n M but kept tumbng cut sgains his waist
coat buttons with click that discomposed him very
| much. -, A.
ooh, say. Look here Ny fathers not in the
WAY and won't be in the way to-day, SAID Barnacle
Junior SIS this anything that can do
Click Eye-glass down. Bernacle Junior quite
frightened and feeling all round himself, but not aoie
| to find it,. go =, .-,.. C,.nno,, "I
wish. however to see Mr.. Barnac!e.
" Brt. | saw. Look here You haven't got any
| APPOINTMENT you know said Barnacle Jumer;
by this time be had found the eye-Siass' anu put
no" said Arthur Ceunam. Il" That is what wish
| to have" ,. -,
1CGcb, Tye-eass down again. Barnacle Junior in
that state of search after it that Mr.. Clennam felt 1t
| useless to reply at present. ,,,..,,.;.
SIS IT, said Barnace Junior taking heed OF his VS.
itor brown face anything ObOut-runnage-o that
lPSusng for reply, he opened his right eye with his
hand and stuck his glass 10 it in that infammatory
manner that his eye began watering dreadfuly.)
mo" said Arthur, . il is nothing about tunnage.
Then look here. Is it private business
! Il really am not sure. 1t relates to Mr.; DonH.
| Look here, | tell you what You had better eau
Mt our house, if you are going that way. I@enty'iour
| News Street, Grosvenor Square NY iatner 70,
slight touch of the govt, and kept at home by it,.
| The misguided young Barnacle evidently gong
blind on hs eye-gass side, but ashamed to make any
further alteration in his painful arTangementS
Thank you. / will call there now. Good morn
iug" Young Barnacle seemed discounted at this, "a
| not hay ing at all expected him to go.
" You are quite sure" said Bamacle Junior calling
after him when be got TO the door, unwilling wholly 10
renqush the bright business idea he had conceived,
&" that it's nothing about Iunnage."
"Quite sure
With which assurance, and rather wondering what
might have taken place if it had been anything about
| tunnage, Mr.. Cennam withdrew to pursue his IL
| quires.
| News Street Grosvenor Square, not absolutely
Grosvenor Square ITSELF but It very near It, II was
a hleous little street Of dead walls stables and dung
| hills with lofts coach-hOuses inhabited by coach
mems families who had passion for drying clothes,
and decorating their window sils with miniature turn
| pike-gates The principal chImney-sweep OF that
| fashionable quarter lived at the blind end of New
street; and the contained an establish
ment much frequented about early morning and twl-
light for the purchase of wine. bottles and kitchen
stuff. Punchs shows used to lean against the dead
wall in New Street, while their proprietos were dining
elsewhere; and the dogs of the neighborhood made APP
pointments to meet in the same locality. Yet there
we're two or three small aress houses at the entrance
end Of New Street, which went at enormous rents on
account of their being AFFECT hangers-on to fashion
able situation; and whenever one OF these fearful lit
tie coops was 10 be let (which seldom happened, for
they were in great request,) the bouseagent adyer-
tised gentlemany residence IN the most aristo-
cratic part OF the town, lnnuOIeu sOey ny inc culo
| Of the beau-mOnde.
| II gentlemanly residence coming strictly within
this narrow margin, had not been essential to the blood
Of the Barnacles this particular branch would have had
pretty wide selection anong let us say, ten thousand
| houses, offering fifty times the accommodation for
third OF the money. As it was, MIR. Barnacie finding
BIZ gentlemany residence extremely lneonvenent and
extremely dear always laid it, public servant, at
the door of the country and adduced as another in
stance of the Country's parsimony
| Arthur Cennam came to a squeezed house, with
| ramshackle bowed front little dingy windows, and
little dark like damp waistcOat-pocket, which
| he found to be number twenty four, News Street,
| GrOevenor Square. To the Of smell the house
was ike sort of bottle filed with strong distlation
of news; and when the footman opened the door, he
seemed to take the stopper out.
| The ooman to the GrOevenor Square footmen
what the house TO the Groevenor Square houses.
| Admirable in his way, his way was back and BY
way. His gOrgeousness was not unIaixed with dirt;
and both in complexion and consistency be had suffered
| from the closeness Of his pantry. salow fiabbness
upon him, when he took the stopper out, and pre-
| sented the bottle to Mr.. Clennam's nose.
BE good as to give that card to Dir. lite Bar
nace and to say that have just seen the younger
| Mr. Barnacle, who recommended me to call here"
| The footman who had AS many large buttons with
the Bsrnace crest upon them, the flaps of his pOck
cts, as if he the family strOng box and carried
the plate and jewels about with him buttoned upl pom
| dered over the card little then said, walk in" 1t
required some judgment 10 do It without buttng the
| inner hall-dOor opeD ard IN the consequent mental
| confusion and physical darkness slipping down the
kitchen stairs. The visitor, however brought himself
| up safely on the door-mat.
Still the footman said Walk in so the visitor fol-
! lowed him. At the inner hal-door another bottle
-eemed to BE- presented and another stopper taken out
This second phal appeared to be filed with concen-
trated prov.ions and extract of Sink from the pantry.
After skirmsh in the narrow passage occasioned by
the foOtman opening the door of the dismal dining