Hard-ware


A FEW years ago, when Handel's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso were performed

at Birmingham, the passage most admired was,--



Such notes, as warbled to the string,

Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.



The great manufacturers and mechanics of the place were inconceivably

delighted with this idea, because they had never heard of anything in

iron before that could not be made at Birmingham.



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