. Thackerayana;. , ranges from heaven aboveto the earth beneath, and to the waters under the earth. Everyproduction of nature or of art, remarkable either for beauty ordeformity, but particularly if either scarce or old, is now the objectof my husbands avidity. The profits of our business, once con-siderable, but now daily diminishing, are expended, not only oncoins, but on shells, lumps of different coloured stones, driedbutterflies, old pictures, ragged books, and worm-eaten parchments. Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep inorder, it would be now equally vain to attempt
. Thackerayana;. , ranges from heaven aboveto the earth beneath, and to the waters under the earth. Everyproduction of nature or of art, remarkable either for beauty ordeformity, but particularly if either scarce or old, is now the objectof my husbands avidity. The profits of our business, once con-siderable, but now daily diminishing, are expended, not only oncoins, but on shells, lumps of different coloured stones, driedbutterflies, old pictures, ragged books, and worm-eaten parchments. Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep inorder, it would be now equally vain to attempt cleaning as the ark 4i6 THACKERA YANA. of Noah. The childrens bed is supplied by an Indian canoe ;and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock,slung up to the roof between a stuffed crocodile and the skeleton ofa calf with two heads. Even the commodities of our shop havebeen turned out to make room for trash and vermin. Kites, owls,and bats are perched upon the top of our shelves; and it was but. yesterday that, putting my hand, into a glass jar that used tocontain pickles, I laid hold of a large tarantula in place of amangoe. In the bitterness of my soul, Mr. Mirror, I have been oftentempted to revenge myself on the objects of my husbands phrenzy,by burning, smashing, and destroying them without mercy; but,besides that such violent procedure might have effects too dreadfulupon a brain which, I fear, is already much unsettled, I could nottake such a course without being guilty of a fraud to our creditors,several of whom will, I believe, sooner or later, find it their onlymeans of reimbursement to take back each man his own monsters. The Mirror.—Vol. I. No. 25. The * Mirror prints a letter upon the grievancesfelt by the families of men of small fortunes whenassociated with those enjoying great ones. You will remember, sir, my account of a visitwhich my daughters paid to a great lady in our neigh-bourhood, and of the effects which that visit hadupon them. I wa
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