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in her hand. If she observes any of them idle, she reaches thema tap, and if that will not do, she rings a bell, which, by a littlecord, is attached to the box. She points out the offender, and sheis taken into another room and chastised. And I believe this wayof ordering the young women in Germany (Flanders) is one great

(The piece of lace from wliieli this woodcut is taken has five or six differentdesigns all joined together; probably patterns sent round for orders.)

cause that the German women have so little twit twat, 11 and I amsure it will be as well were it so in England. There the childrenemulate the father—here they beggar him. Child,” he winds up,

" An old term, still used in Scotland, for gossip, chatter.