. Master Humphrey's clock . it was said,like infants, when they were flung upon the blaze ; and one man was so touched 32J< MASTF:R HUMPHREYS CLOCK. that lie tried in v;iin to save them, which roused the indignation of the crowd,and nearly cost him his life. At this same house, one of the fellows who went through the rooms, breakingthe furniture and helping to destroy the building, found a childs doll—a poortoy—which he exhibited at the window to the mob below, as the image of someunholy saint which the late occupants had worshipped. While he was doingthis, another man with an equally tende
. Master Humphrey's clock . it was said,like infants, when they were flung upon the blaze ; and one man was so touched 32J< MASTF:R HUMPHREYS CLOCK. that lie tried in v;iin to save them, which roused the indignation of the crowd,and nearly cost him his life. At this same house, one of the fellows who went through the rooms, breakingthe furniture and helping to destroy the building, found a childs doll—a poortoy—which he exhibited at the window to the mob below, as the image of someunholy saint which the late occupants had worshipped. While he was doingthis, another man with an equally tender conscience (they had both been fore-most in throwing down the canary birds for roasting alive), took his seat onthe parapet of the house, and harangued the crowd from a pamphlet circulatedby the association, relative to the true principles of Christianity. Meanwhilethe Lord Mayor, with his hands in his pockets, looked on as an idle man mightlook at any other show, and seem mightily satisfied to have got a good Such were the accounts brought to the old vintner by his servants as he satat the side of Mr. Harodales bed ; having been unable even to doze, afterthe first part of the night; being too much disturbed by his own fears ; bythe cries of the mob, the light of the fiires, and the firing of the , with the addition of the release of all the prisoners in the New Jail atClerkonwell, and as many robberies of passengers in the streets, as the crowdhad leisure to indulge in, were the scenes of which Mr. Ilarcdale was happilyunconscious, and which weio all enacted before midniijht. BARNABY RUDGE. 325 CHArTER THE SIXTY-SEVENTH, When daikncss broke away and morning began to dawn, the town wore astrange aspect indeed. Sleep had scarcely been thought of all night. The general alarm was soapparent in the faces of the inluibitants, and its expression was so aggravatedby want of rest (few persons, with any property to lose, having dared to goto bed since Monday),
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