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next week Sambo was put in brdewell last
night and have been clear down to Mrs.
Ciossip's. to see if she knew of any other
white washer.


Mrs. A.-Worse and worse: l don't be-
lieve We shall ever get settled. And don't
you think, Mr.. Artful, that Mrs. Slyboots
had the impudence this morning to try to
coax the cook away, and offered to give her


dollar month more wages. wish with


all nv heart we were back again to Dey-
| street.


MIR. A.--Wcll, my dear. it is bad enough
to be sure But your repentance has come


altogether too late. These things should


have been thought OF before. AS it is. we


must endure the evils, get the house in or


der, and repair the losses by irugality. In
/ the mean time, we must get along as well as


We can for day or two, and perhaps can


prevail upon old Beeswax to let Cesar, or


Mark Antony, or what's his name, come and
do the white washing for you.


The foregoing is no ideal picture. Every
| May-day throws ten thousand families INTO


the same situation as that OF poor Mr.. Art
full. Some move to get better houses; some


to live in more fashionable streets; some


from love Of change; some in reality to


lessen their expenses; and some TO increase


them; and hundreds and thousands 40 no'
hesitate to spend twenty dollars in moving
and destroy fifty dollars worth OF furniture
to save twenty-five dollars worth OF rent
while il must be admitted that but too ma
, nv landlords often take advantage OF thos
whose reluctance to move is great, and screv
their rents fro! year to year up to the hlgh
I, est point. And the evil is aggravated nun
dred fold bv the nconveniert custom OF max


ing all leases to commence on the first @
: AIaN. We can hardly conceive oL.ny thI"
more appalling than the annual return 9
Z this season of white wash, wheelbarroW'
t and suds When the city was bounded o.
n the north by Wall-strect, the custom WI.
s not so inconvencnt. But now that i extend


thnlf o, er the island, a bombardment wouI
e be trife to it, for that would soon be ove'
4 Now. however. for ten days before the aw
/ full moving, the dreadful note OF preparatio
( IS heard Every house must be cleaned
:, the same time. Every mop and brush
: put in requisition, and every one that use
a them, becomes impudent and extortionat'
e Those who can remove earlier, do No--to
T. number lust sufficient TO cucumber the side
e walks and streets for week before the fat'
Y dav. If the general turn out. And thcn sue
e soolding within doors aud swearing withot


such a din Of every kind, that the cohlu
n sion of Babel must have been Ike the rif
C bling riyulet in comparison with the oceaI
.. when lashcd to foam by the bowling ten
v pest. But whether the complicated evi
Il will ever be remedied we know not hel
SC is little prospect Of change at present
d the mean time, choosing "rather to endur
- the ills we have, than to fy to others
,r know we'll Of" we shall beware OF engas
le ing in such moving business, as long as "
ID eau.