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the bench, in modest retirement & concentrated effort - When he has completed the task he wipes the perspiration from his forehead with a calico handkerchief & subsides into Egyptian solidity - He would be a "pendant" for Hogarth's old woman in the church scene in that artist's series of Industry & Idleness - For all this, Mr Pettyjohn is a man to be respected, & I am indebted to him for his good intentions in rescuing me for one night from the horrors of that loft, altho' he scarcely bettered my condition by placing me in the interpreters office, where the accumulation of dust & stale tobacco smoke was in proportion to that gentleman's repugnance to permitting the "women folk" to "put things to rights" -