There will he kneeling, strive the fire to raise,

And that will warm him rather than the blaze.

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The sullen smokey blze, that cannot last

One moment after his attempt is passed."(L)

As an illustration of the homes of the poor, not in desperately straightened circumstances we have the fishermens huts on the beach and the hovels on the common.

....I repair

From this tall mansion of our last year's mayor,

Till we the outskirts of the Borough reach,

And these half buried buildings next the beach,

Where hang at open doorsthe net and cork

While squalid sea-dames men the meshy work:

Till comes the hour when fishing through the tide,

The weary husband throws his freight aside;

A living mass which now demands the wife,

Th' alternate labours of their humble life.(2)

He saw some scatter'd hovels; turf was piled

In square brown piles stacks; a prospect bleak and

A mill, indeed, was in the centre found,

With short sea herbage withering all around;

(1) Crabbe V. 176-7. (2) Crabbe III. 18.

wild;

A smith's black shed opposed a wright's long shop,
And join'd an inn where humble travelers stop.(1)

Gypsies.

On the same common whe re the cottages with low

thatched roof, shattered floor and walls of clay were to be seen the travelers espied a hollow on the left where, A Gipsy-tribe their tent had rear'd;

'Twas open spread to catch the morning sun,

And they had now their early meal begun,

When two brown boys jusu left their grassy seat,
The early trav'ller with their prayers togreet:
While yet Orlando held his pence in hand,

He saw their sister on her ducy stand;
Some twelve years old, demure, affected, sky,
Prepared the force of early powers to try;
Forth from the tent her elder brother came,
Within the Father, who from fences nigh

Had brought the fuel for the fire's supply,

Watched now the feeble blaze and stood dejected by;

On ragged rug, just borrowed from the bed,

(1) Crabbe V. 241.