. The essays of Leigh Hunt. ties; balls, which possess the addi-tional zest of the danger of breaking peoples windows ;ropes, good for swinging and skipping, especially the longones which others turn for you, while you run in a masterlymanner up and down, or skip in one spot with an easy andendless exactitude of toe, looking alternately at theirconscious faces ; blood-allies, with which the possessor of acrisp finger and thumb-knuckle causes the smitten marbles tovanish out of the ring ; kites, which must appear to morevital birds a ghastly kind of fowl, with their grim long whitefaces, no bod
. The essays of Leigh Hunt. ties; balls, which possess the addi-tional zest of the danger of breaking peoples windows ;ropes, good for swinging and skipping, especially the longones which others turn for you, while you run in a masterlymanner up and down, or skip in one spot with an easy andendless exactitude of toe, looking alternately at theirconscious faces ; blood-allies, with which the possessor of acrisp finger and thumb-knuckle causes the smitten marbles tovanish out of the ring ; kites, which must appear to morevital birds a ghastly kind of fowl, with their grim long whitefaces, no bodies, and endless tails ;—cricket bats, manlyto handle ;—trap bats, a genteel inferiority ;—swimmingcorks, despicable ;—horses on wheels, an imposition on theinfant public;—rocking-horses, too much like Pegasus,ardent, yet never getting on;—Dutch toys, so like life thatthey ought to be better ;—Jacobs ladders, flapping downone over another their tintinnabulary shutters;—dissected G 98 NEARER VIEW OF THE SHOPS. aunt maps, from which the infant statesmen may learn how todovetail provinces and kingdoms ;—paper posture-makers,who hitch up their knees against their shoulder-blades, anddangle their legs like an opera dancer;—Lilliputian plates,dishes, and other household utensils, in which a granddinner is served up out of half an apple ;—boxes of paints, tocolour engravings with, always beyond the outline ;—ditto ofbricks, a very sensible and lasting toy, which we exceptfrom a grudge we have against the gravity of infantgeometricks ;—whips, very useful for cutting peoples eyesunawares;—hoops, one of the most ancient as well asexcellent of toys ;—sheets of pictures, from A apple-pie upto farming, military, and zoological exhibitions, alwaystaking care that the Fly is as large as the Elephant, andthe letter X exclusively appropriated to Xerxes ;—musical NEARER VIEW OF THE SHOPS 99 deal-boxes, rather complaining than sweet, and more like apeal of bodkins
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