Prose A

Chimney Sweeper
Lines:

I like to meet a sweep .. understand me.. not a grown sweeper

..old sweepers are by no means attractive... But one of those
tender novice, blooming through their first nigitude the maternal
washing not quite effaced from the cheek.. such as come forth
peep peep of a young Sparrow ,or liker to the Martin lark should
I pronunce them,in their aerial ascents not seldom anticipating
the sun-rise?

Explanation:

Lamb says that i like to meet sweepers those who are not adult

These sweepers are not so much attractive to me

I meet those sweepers who are tender novices

Tender novice means Innocent you g chimney sweepers ..

Here lamb gives these chimney sweepers name tender novice ..

Lamb says that while washing chimney they get black dust
which is so thick that their maternal mother's also can't washout
becuz this black dust is so hard to wash...

These little sweepers come at dawn .it means that they get up
early in the morning and utter so Sharp voice.their voices are so
Sharp that it seems that they are saying peep peep.

Here lamb uses simily that their voices sound like Martin
lark(sharp voice of a bird)

These little sweepers has no hope of Good days . Here sun-rise

means good days.

Intinab shahzadai 51

Words meanings ……

Yearning [ soft corner ]

Dim specks /specks means dot [reference to chimney

sweepers ]

Blots [stains]

Reverence [respect]
Assumption [proud]

Nipping air [freezing air]

Preach [seek]

Sport [wear]

Clergy imps [innocent satan]

Fauces averni [jews of hell]

Line no 1

I have a kindly yearning …………………innocent blackness.

Charles lamb is saying that he has a soft corner in his heart

towards these chimney sweepers , he is very kindful with them
and he is also feeling pity for these chimney sweepers whose
faces are filled with dark spots , he is also very friendly towards
the inocent black looking children.

Line no 2

I reverence these ………..clergy imps .

He is very respectful towards the young africians who belongs

from his own nation .here he is saying them africians because of
their blackness not because they belonged from Africa .he is
also them inocent satan.he is saying them because of their
blackness and he is saying them inocent because they don’t have
any bad intentions and their hearts are also pure , and they are
also proud less .

Line no 3

Who sport their clothes ………to mankind.

Every morning they wear their uniforms without any kind of

proud , in the freezing air of December they went to the top of
the chimney to perform their tasks , they were also very hard
working and by working so hard they also seek a lesson to the
man kind.

Line no 4

What a child ……………. A imagination

He is saying that when he was a child he used to witness tand

admire their hard work , he also imagined that how can a boy
who is not much elder than him can enter the front of the
chimney , he further says that the enterence of chimney was like
the jews of hell to him.
 Aleena Masood 52

As he went sounding on through ……………. with a tree in his

hand rises.”

WORDS MEANINGS:

SHIFLING CAVERNS: Narrow corners.

REVIVE: Give new strength or energy.

FEEBLE: Lacking strength of character.

DELIGHT: Great pleasure.

SABLE PHENOMENON: Black child.

BRANDISHED: Wave or flourish a weapon in excitement.

VICTORIOUS: Having won a victory.

CONQUERED: (of a place or people) having been overcome

and taken control of by military force.

STACK: A chimney, especially one on a factory, or a vertical

exhaust pipe on a vehicle.

SPECTACLE: An event or scene regarded in terms of its visual

impact.
APPARITION: A ghost or ghostlike image of a person.

EXPLANATION:

As he went sounding on ………………. must be lost forever!

In these lines Charles lamb says that those children were going
through the dark narrow corners of chimney by making noises.
Horrible images were made there inside the chimney. Lamb says
that he got scared from the thought that now the child will never
come out.

To revive at hearing ……………… discovered day-light.

Lamb says that he got happy by hearing innocent voices which

the child make when he reach at the top of chimney and at the
top of chimney he also reach the day light.

And then (O fullness of delight)……….emerge in safety.

Lamb says that he always come at that place on time just to see
the children coming out of the chimney safely.

The brandished weapon …………….conquered citadel.

Lamb says that those children wave their brushes at the top of
the chimney like a flag as if they have won a citadel.

I seem to remember ………………way the wind blew.

Lamb says that he remember once a sweeper stopped in chimney

using his brush just to see that what will happen. (Which way
the wind blew) is an idiom which means to know what is going
to happen.

It was an awful ………………..in his hand rises.”

Lamb says that this horrible situation is similar to Macbeth

scene in which a ghost child come with a tree in his hand
crowned. Similarly a child come out of chimney with a brush in
his hand.

Abeera Tariq 53

Lines:

"Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry in thy early

rambles, it is good to give him a penny. It is better to give him
two-pence. If it be starving weather, and to the proper troubles
of his hard occupation, a pair of kibed heels be superadded, the
demand in thy humanity will surely rise to a tester."

Explanation:

Here Charles Lamb address reader that if you meet that

type of person who move aimless or search for food, it is good
to give him some money or one penny but again hi said that if
you give him two-pence it is bstter for you. Feather he said that
if it is starving season and they face many troubles in their
occupation, you must be do something for them. And your sense
of humanity must be rise up.

Lines:

"There is a composition, the ground-work of which I have

understand to be the sweet wood yclept sassafras. This wood
boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of
milk and sugar, hath to some tastes a delicacy beyond the China
luxury."

Explanation:
 Now Lamb urges the reader to be compassionate on these
young souls.it would be nice of the readers to provide the
youngmen and women with some money, food and warm
clothes and that the readers do not have to spend their entire
fortune but a very minute part of it.

Haleema Sajid 54

Lines:

I know not how thy palate may relish it ,for myself, with every
deference to the judicious Mr Read,who hath time out of mind
kept open a shop (the only one he avers in London)for the
vending of this "wholesome and pleasant beverage on the south
side of fleet-street,as thou approachest Bridge-street ,the only
solopian house ,I have never yet adventured to dip my own
particular lip on a basin of his commended ingredient,a cautious
premonition to the oilfactory constantly whispering to me that
my stomach must infallibly ,with all due courtesy decline it,yet I
have seen palates , otherwise not uninstructed in dietectical 
elegances ,sup it up with avidity.
Explanation:

I don't know how your tasty bud take it and drink it,for
myself,Mr Read (owner of solopian house who prepare this
sassafras tea) since longtime ,he open this shop the only one
shop in London,for selling this pleasant drink,when you
approach bridge Street you go to South of fleet-street where you
find the only solopian house ,still I can not do adventure to dip
my lip in this bowl to drink this tea. The smell come from oil
factory warn me ,my stomach could not digest it so I cannot
drink it,I have seen people  who drink this tea . they're illiterate
about the nuturial or food manner ,they drink it with curiosity.

Iqra Abbasi 55

I know not by what particular………comparable to this mixture

WORDS MEANINGS :

PARTICULAR: used to single out an individual member of a

specified group or class
CONFORMATION: (feelings) (the shape or structure of
something, especially an animal.)

ORGAN: a large musical instrument having rows of pipes

supplied with air from bellows (now usually

electrically powered), and played using a keyboard or by an

automatic mechanism.

COMPOSITION: the nature of something's ingredients or

constituents; the way in which a whole or

mixture is made up.

SURPRISINGLY: in a way that causes surprise; unexpectedly.

GRATIFYING: giving pleasure or satisfaction

PALATE: the roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the

mouth and nose in vertebrates.

SASSAFRAS: a deciduous North American tree with aromatic

leaves and bark. The leaves are infused

to make tea or ground into file

OLEAGINOUS: (very hard) (rich in, covered with, or

producing oil; oily.)
ATTENUATE: (to decrease) (reduce the force, effect, or value
of)

FULIGINOUS CONCRETIONS: (black hard soot) (sooty or

smoky) (a hard-solid mass formed by

the local accumulation of matter, especially within the body or

within a mass of sediment)

DISSECTIONS: the action of dissecting a body or plant to

study its internal parts

ADHERE: stick fast to (a surface or substance). or (believe in

and follow the practices of)

UNFLEDGED PRACTITIONERS: (of a person)

inexperienced; youthful.) ( a person actively engaged

in an art, discipline, or profession, especially medicine)

(sweepers)

MINGLED: move among and engage with others at a social

function

BITTER WOOD IN THE LOT OF THESE RAW

VICTIMS: mixed great does of sorrow and pain in
the hard life of the young and less children forced to the trade of
sweepers

LENITIVE: (to give joy) (relative soothing remedies) (as

medicines or applications)

ODOUR: (smell) (a distinctive smell, especially an unpleasant

one)

EXCITEMENT: something that arouses a feeling of

excitement.

EXPLINATION:

I know not by……. young chimney sweepers

He says that he knows the feeling that what effect is caused to

the organs but

then Lam is talking about the sassafras’s tea. He is saying that

what is special

feeling in that tea that these chimney sweepers drink it and feel
satisfaction

whether the oily……. fuliginous concretions

when chimney sweepers sweep the chimneys the hard-black soot
deposit in

their throats or palate this tea make thinner or soft or weaken

dark soot and

decreases the effect of this black soot.

which are sometimes………. unfledged practitioners

these particles are often found in pieces and stick on the roof of
the mouth of

these sweepers. Here Lamb uses word practitioners for those

young chimney

sweepers.

or whether Nature…………to this mixture

this tea has mingled some bitterness, great does of sorrow and
pain in the hard

life of the young chimney sweepers and less children forced to

the trade of

sweepers. The nature is so sensible that it grows out this

sassafras wood for
these chimney sweepers. This tea gives them satisfaction,
relative soothing

remedy and for them there is no other orderable thing which

gives them

pleasures.

Hajra Bashir 56

Lines:

Being penniless they will yet hang their blank heads over the
ascending steam to gratify one sense if possible .................and
the hard handed artisan leaving his bed to resume his pre_mature
labours of the day.

Words/Meaning:

Gratify ... give pleasure or satisfy

inculcate ....teach an idea by instruction

Dispense....to distribute

Savoury ....salty , spicy

Sprig of Valerian ...they are one the ingeridents of draught of

living death.
Explanation:

Being penniless, they are unable to afford this too but it does not
stop them from hanging their blackened heads over the steam
rising from the boiling pot to inhale the aroma and gratify at
least one sense organ. It evoked a rare pleasure in them
comparable to the purring of cats when they find a sprig of
valerian. No Philosophy can perhaps explain the phenomenon
behind these sympathies.

Though Mr. Read believes that his house is the only one to serve
this beverage, unknown to him several establishments run by
industrious imitators provide the same savoury drink for much
humbler customers. At the dead of dawn, when the rake and the
artisan jostle for space on the pavements, when the kitchen-fires
are dead, the aroma of this concoction wafts from the meaner
dwellings of the metropolis. The rake who reels home after
indulging in too many alcoholic drinks until midnight finds it
revolting as he passes by but the artisan stops w taste and blesses
the fragrant breakfast.. Chimney swippers go for the premature
labour before starting the day.

Rabbia Hafeez 57

Words/Meanings
Summer : bright sunny day

Expired : extinguished

Relumined : illuminate/
to light

Lines: Metropolis: capital region

It is the time when, in summer, of a country
between the expired and the not yet Odours : smell
relumined kitchen-fires, the
kennels of our fair metropolis give
Explanation:
fourth their least satisfactory
In these lines Charles Lamb says that it is
odours.
the bright and sunny summer time when
the extinguished fire of kitchen is not
relighted. The sewage way of amazing city
London spread their unhygienic smell.
 Lines:
The rake who wisheth to dissipate his
o’ernighht vapours in more grateful
coffee, curses the ungenial fume, as he
passeth; but the artisan stops to taste and
blesses the fragment breakfast.

Words/Meanings
Rake: rich

Dissipate: end

O’vernight vapours: late

night hangouts

Ungenial: Unpleasant

Fume: gas

Explanation:
The rich person want to slow down his late
night wine addiction by drinking the amazing
coffee, as he passes through he criticizes the
unpleasant smell. But the sweeper stops to taste
the smell of breakfast.
 Lines:
This is Saloop—the precocious herb-
woman’s darling—the delight of the
early gardener, who transport his
smoking cabbages by break of day
from Hammersmith to Covent-garden’s
famed piazzas—the delight, and, oh I
fear, too often the envy of the
unpennied sweep.

Words/Meanings
Saloop: Salopian house

Precocious: advanced/ early

Herb-woman: a woman who

has knowledge about herbs

Smoking: fresh

Famed piazzas: famous

market place.

Envy: jealousy

Unpennied: poor

Explanation:
Now Charles Lamb refers to the Salopian house and says this is
Saloop, the early to rise herb woman’s favourite. The amusement of
early gardeners who transports their fresh cabbages early in the
morning from Hamersmith to Covent garden’s most famous market.
He says in this amusement I fear for the jealousy of poor sweepers.
 Lines:
Him shouldest thou haply encounter,
with his dim visage pendent over the
grateful steam, regale him with a
sumptuous basin (it will cost you three
half pennies) and a slice of delicate
bread and butter (an added half
penny).

Words/Meanings
Encounter: to face

Dim: sad

Visage: face expression

Pendent: hanging down

Regale: entertain

Sumptuous: lavish

Basin: bowl

Explanation:
He says that if you by chance meet a chimney
sweeper ever who is hanging down his face
over the pleasant steam, entertain him with a
lavish bowl of Sassaforas tea.(It will cost you
but 1.5 penny) and a piece of soft bread and
butter (which will cost you additional 0.5
penny.)

Ayesha Hussain 58
Lines:
So may thy culinary fires
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----------or splashed stocking of a gentleman.

Words/MEANINGS:
Eased: unpleasant
Susceptible: sensitive
Splashed: fall on
Disgusted: dislike
Rattling: burst of sounds
Clinary fires: fire produced during process of cooking

Explanation:
The writer conveys the readers and urges them to help these young
sweepers by giving extra money. The employers need to be grateful
and respectful to these chimney sweepers, because they work hard
and not allow the descending soot to ever touch the food, even if they
have to face death in a fired chimney. Their cries cannot be heard for
there is the noise of rattling engines from the adjacent “parishes”.
The writer shares one of his early experience where he had a good
fall and a chimney sweepers laughed looking at this. Lamb is
particularly susceptible to taunts and jeers from common people and
he is disgusted by their habit of finding pleasure in a gentleman
tripping as he walked or when his stocking is splashed.
Faria Anwar 58
Text:
I am by nature extremely susceptible of street affronts the jeers
and taunts of the populace; the low-bred triumph they display
over the casual trip or splashed stocking of a gentleman. Yet can
i endure the jocularity of a young sweep with something more
than forgiveness. In the last winter but one, pacing along cheap-
side with my accustomed precipitation when i walk west ward, a
treacherous slide brought me upon my back in an instant. I
scrambled up with pain and shame enough--Yet outwardly
trying to face it down, as if nothing..... worked themselves out at
the corners of his poor red eyes, red from many
previous weeping.

Difficult words
susceptible=admitting
affronts=an action
=the people living in a part in  a particular country
low-bred=rude
triumph=a great victory or achievement
splashed=a sound made by something striking
stocking=the activity of supplying a stock of something
jocularity=activity characterized by good humor jest, joke
cheap-side=a street
precipitation=the action, rain ,snow
treacherous=extremely dangerous, because of bad
slide=a structure with a smooth sloping surface for children to
slide
scrambled= awkwardly up a steep slope
roguish= characteristic of unprincipled person
grin=smile broadly
encountered=something difficult or hostile unexpected
experience 
mob=a large crowd of people especially one that is disorderly
and intent on causing trouble
exquisiteness= the state or quality of having a delicate structure

Explanation:
In these lines Charles Lamb tells that his nature is quite
different he got angry over ordinary matters if someone taunt me
and show anger upon me i become frustrated instantly he tells us
that he does not like when someone laugh at me but when young
chimney sweeper laugh at me then i not only forgive them but
also i like them when they laugh at me, then lamb told his last
winter experience when he fell down extremely then he
awkwardly up to a sleep slope with a full of pain and shame but
he tried to show apparently as nothing had happened when this
unexpected experience happened then uncivilized or
unprincipled person smile broadly with the mouth open then he
pointed me out with his dusky black finger to the crowed of
people and particular to a poor woman (he suppose she is his
mother)in this state, tear come out from the corners of his eyes
due to, excessive laughing his eyes was red because he was
working as a chimney sweepers.
Asifa kanwal 60

Text:
And soot inflamed yet twinkling through all with such a joy
snatched out of desolation that Hograth but Hograth has got him
already in the March to Finchely grinning at the pye man there
he stood as he stands in the picture irremovable as if the jest was
to last for ever with such a maximum of glee and minimum of
mischief in his mirth for the grin of a genuine sweep hath
absolutely no maluce in it that i could have been content if the
honour of a gentleman might endure it to have remained his butt
and his mockery till midnight.
Explanation:
In these lines Charles lamb says that the eyes of the chimney
sweeper were inflamed the soot from the chimneys he cleaned
irritated them but the fall had brought tears of mirth to his eyes.
Then he talk about Hograth painting March to
Finchely in which a child laughing. And the artist immortalize a
chimney sweeper grinning at a pye man as if the joy was to last
forever.
The honour of a gentleman like lamb could withstand the
ridicule of a such a sweep for it was neither malicious rather it
was one of utmost glee. On the whole he dedcribe their general
attitude as being gentle and polite maybe due to the hardship.
Kinza Khalil Malik 61
Lines:
I am theory obdurate _______________an allowable piece of
foppery.
Words Meaning:
1: obdurate: stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion
2:seductiveness: the quality of making someone feel attracted to
you
3:presumbaly: used to convey that is asserted is very likely
though not known for certain
4: frugal: sparing or economical as. Regards money or food
5:ostentations: characterized by pretentious or show display
6:Anomaly: something that deviates from what is standard,
normal or expected.

Explanation:
seductive a fine set of teeth may be within the rosy lips of a lady
or of a gentleman, they fail to influence Lamb in any way. But
the white and shiny teeth of the sooty chimney sweep fascinates
him. It is like the proverbial positive aspect of a sable cloud: or
like the remnants of the gentry, which is not extinct yet; it is like
a reminder of happier days; or even a hint of nobility. It even
raises suspicions of good parentage,lineage and gentle
conditions or of a lapsed pedigree. The custom of introducing
tenderly aged boys as chimney sweeps makes the fear of
clandestine and almost infantile abduction to be alarmingly true.
The courtesy and civility noticed in such children is so startling
that forced adoptions seem probable. A notable incident of this
nature is the abduction of Montague and his recovery. However,
this is a solitary instance and many of such abductions have
remained traceless.
Analysis :
This essay is a rich feast for literary epicure. Iteration is one of
the ingredients of lamb’s style in his essay. This is a highly
imaginative essay with deep emotional appeal and is written in a
poetic style. It may indeed be, called a ‘lyric In prose.
Syed Baseerat Zahar
62
Lines:
It is some remnant of gentry not quite extinct ; a badge of better
days ; a hint of nobility and , doubtless, under the obscuring
darkness and double night of their forlornancestry , and a lapsed
pedigree . The premature apprenticements of these tender
victims give but too much encouragement, fear to clandestine,
and almost infantile abductions ; the seeds of civility and true
courtesy, so often discernible in these young grafts ( not
mourning for their children ,even in our days , countenance the
fact; the tales of
fairy-spiriting may shadow lamentableverity , and the recovery
of the youngMontague but a solitary instance of good fortune ,
out of many irreparable andhopeless defiliations.

Explanation:
Lamb says that most of the young chimney sweepers have been
removed from their noble families and forcibly thrown to their
degrading trade and now he proceeds by saying that there are
some noble mothers the contemporary society who have lost
their sons and not find any trace of them.They are living under
the disguise as a chimney . The old stories about fairies stealing
the fair children of human is the example of what is happening
in the world. There is the case of young Montague who hasbeen
left the profession of chimney sweeper happily normal family .
This good luck isn’t happen with many of the mothers who lost
their children and failed to recover and lost.Hope’s for all the
times to come.
Samara Bilquis 63
Lines:
In one of the state bed………..like a young Howard.
Explanation:
The incident of a chimney sleeping in the ducal bed of Arundle
castle, the seat of the Howards, seems to indicate that Lamb's
assumption was correct. After a cleaning operation, the poor
sweep had a lost himself in the labyrinth of rooms in the castle,
and wearied by his attempts to extricate himself from it, had
decided to rest upon the snowy sheets of the duke's bed.The
grand bed and the decorated to rest upon the snowy sheets of the
duke's bed. The grand bed and the decorated curtains, which are
the cynosure of many visitors eyes, famed to be even more
comfortable than the lap where Venus lulled Ascanius did not
intimidate the young boy. instead, he had laid his black head
upon the pillow and slept like a young Howard.
 Zareeda BiBi 65
Lines:
Such an account given to the visitors at the castle.--But I cannot
help seeming to perceive a confirmation of what I have just
hinted at in this story. A high instinct was at work in the case, or
I am mistaken.Is it probable that a poor child of that description,
with whatever weariness he might be visited, would have
ventured, under such a penalty, as he would be taught of expect,
to uncover the sheets of a Duke's bed, and deliberately to lay
himself down between them, when the rug, or a carpet,
presented an obvious couch, still far above his pretension -- is
this probable, I would ask, if the great power of nature, which I
contend for, had not been manifested within him, prompting to
the adventure?
Explanation:
This story circulated among the visitors to the castle, Lamb's
theory, prove to be true ,of Chimey Sweaper's origin as abducted
children of noble descent.For no poor child would dream of
sleeping on bed of Duke of Arundel for fear of punishment. He
would prefer to lie on a rug(a small balnket), a carpet or a couch
but some force of Nature manifest(clear/obivious) in him had
guided him to the bed.
Rukhshanda Kanwal 66

Text:
Doubtless this young nobleman for such my mind misgives me
that he must be was allured by some memory,not amounting to
full consciousness, of his condition in infancy when he was used
to lapt by his mother,or his nurse, in just such sheets as he there
found ,into which he was now but creeping back as into his
proper incunabula ,and resting place .By no other theory,than by
this sentiment of a pre existent state as I may call it ,can I
explain a deed so venturous ,and indeed,any other system ,so
indecorous,in this tender but unseasonable sleeper.

Words meaning:
Amounting /quantity
Allured/charm
Incunabula/suitable
Venturous/dengurous
Explanation:
It might have been an unconscious remembrance of his
condition in infancy,when his mother or nurse had laid him to
sleep within similar sheets.By no other theory could the poor
sweep's action be explained except that he had perhaps felt as.if
he had been returning to his rightful place of rest,a pre existent
sentiment to which he had instinctively given in.
Misbah
67
Lines:
My plesants friend …………. Were infanty

Words meaning:
metmorphoses: change the condition
changelings: exchanged for another in infancy
solemn: religious
supper: evening meal
confining: to hold within a location
striping: bid piece
Explanation:
1. Here lambs says about his friend named Jem White was
one such person that shared his sympaty for these people.He
wanted to give some happines to these young chimeny sweepers,
and reverse the wrongs of fortune in the chimney sweapers
2. for this purpose he arranged an annual feast for young
chimney sweepera Mr.WHite was himself host and waiter in
this feast .
3. it was a supper at smithfield {a palace where this feast
washeld} during the fair of ST.Bartholemeus.
4. cards were issued a week before and these chimney
sweepers invited in the feast
5. all the chimney sweapers including adult were also invited
in the feast. But Mr. jem white main objective wast that give
some relief and enjoyment to these young chimney sweepers,
and main body in the feast was these chimnaey sweepers.
Komal Fatima 68

One unfortunate weight………. assembled about seven

Words Meaning:
DUSKY: darkish in color

INTRUDED: put oneself deliberately into a place or situation

where one is unwelcome or uninvited

PROVIDENTIALLY: of, relating to, or determined by

Providence

SOOT: a deep black powdery or flaky substance consisting

largely of amorphous carbon, produced by

the incomplete burning of organic matter.

QUOITED: a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal

are thrown at an upright peg, the

object being to encircle it or come as close to

INDIGNATION: anger or annoyance provoked by what is

perceived as unfair treatment.

HARMONEY: the combination of simultaneously sounded

musical notes to produce a pleasing effect

PREVAILED: prove more powerful or superior

CONVENIENT: fitting in well with a person's needs, activities,

and plans.
IMPERVIOUS: not allowing fluid to pass through.

HUB: the central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle,

and from which the spokes radiate

VANITY: excessive pride in or admiration of one's own

appearance or achievements

REMOTE: (of a place) situated far from the main centres of

population; distant.

INTERRUPTION: an act, utterance, or period that interrupts

someone or something

SPECTATOR: a person who watches at a show, game, or other

event.

EXPLINATION:

In above lines we have discussed that one of the Charles Lamb

friend Jem White also one of such a person that shared his
sympathy of these people. He was a charitable man and
organized yearly and fair for their enjoyment and celebration.
Jam White call himself that he was an introduced guest but
above all that these innocent chimney sweepers were the most
honorable guests in the feast.as they have no weeding garment
means glorious or grand dresses but important
things harmony.
The convenient sport at the north of the field beside the Pens
(pens is the place with situated near of the field) was selected
which was neither to near to attract the attention of often the
general activities and crowds of people can easily attending the
fair. The time which was fixed at seven and the guest were
arrived there at fixed time.

Nasreen Raza 69

Text:

In those little temporary parlours three tables were spread with

napery, not so fine as substansial, and at every board a comely
hostess presided with her pan of hissing sausages. The nostrils
of the young rouges dilated at the savour. James White,as head
waiter, had charge of the first table; and myself, with our trusty
campanian Bigod,ordinarily ministered to the other two. There
was clambering and jostling, you may he sure, who should get at
the first table -- for Rochester in his maddest days could not
have done the humors of the scene with more spirit than my
friend.

Meanings:

Temporary Parlours- Rooms formed for a brief period;

temporised rooms.

Napery- napkins; table-cloths.

Substantial- Durable; thick.

Comely- handsome.

Hissing- producing a peculiar sound in heat of the pan.

Young rogues- naughty young sweepers

Dilated- swollen wide.

Bigod- John Fenwick celebrated in ‘Two races of men’

Ministered to- Provided for, served the needs of Clambering-

Eager climbing, rush.

Rochester- The Earl of Rochester, a witty boon companion of

King Charles II.

In his maddest days- In the days of his wildest merriment.

Done the humours of the scene- performed the proper duties of
host on such occasions.

Explanantion:

          Lamb has been describing the great feast instituted by his

friend James White, for the entertainment of young sweepers in
the Bartholomew Fair at Smith field. The arrangements made for
sweepers in order to make what poor amends he could to
sweeten the bitter draught which fate had ministered to the
unlucky young sweeps. Tables were laid with all the formal
pomps of festivity, James White was the chief host and provided
mirth to the company which was more savoury that the exquisite
sausages to the delighted urchens, his formal urchens, his formal
courtesy of address to the assembled guests were all designed to
keep the meriment at the highest pitch and worked the loudest
peals of laughter in which a hundred flashes from the shining
teeth alluminated the thickening gloom of the atmosphere. The
function was woundup with the ceremony of toast in the name
of ‘The King’ and ‘The Cloth’ which led to the crowing
sentiment in the solemn formula, May the Brush super sade the
Laurel.
 Nudarat Malik 69

Lines:
After some general expression of thanks for the honour the
company had done

Him his innugural ceremony was to clasp the greasy waist of old
dame Ursula that stood

Frying and fretting, half blessing half curing the gentlemen and
should print upon her chasle lips a

Tender salute. Where of the universal host would set up a shout

that tore the concave, While hundreds

Of grinning teeth. Startled the night with their brightness. Lt

wad a pleasure to see the sable younkers

Lick in the unctuous meat his more unctuous saying how he

would fit the tit bits to the puny mouths

Reserving the leng their lints for the seriors

Explanation:
His pranks were wild and broke through all the bounds of
decency. His mock courtesy to the fat and greasy dame.The
Author is particularly nettled when he sees a pompos display of
teeth by the ladies

And gentlemen of the society for he thinks that it is just the

extenstion of dome. While walking along

A street, lamb felldown By seeing this chimney sweeper laughed

at him for this Lamb did not get angry.

Because the boy’s joy was completely free from any malice and
was the out come of innocent mirth- Lamb says that he would
have stood these without painful if the boy is laughed till
midnight. He appreciated the sweeper while teeth shining in
contrast to his black skin. A silver lightening in the sable

Cloud on dark night.

Mehwish Khan 71

Lines:

He whould interrupt a morsel even in the jaws of some young

desperado,declaring it "must to the pan again to be.browened"
for it was not fit for a gentle's man.eating. how he whould
recommend this slice of the white bread or that piece of kissing
crust to a tender juvinile advising them all to.have a care of
cracking their teeth were tgeir best patrimony, how gentally he
whould deal about the small.ale, as if it were wine, remaining
the brewer and protesting if it were not good.

Explanation:

Favourite drink of chimney sweeper is Sassafras tea

prepared from the kindnof sweet wood

Lamb has never tasted because of its unsavoury smell.

If someone wants to.show charity to sweepers , he can

buy a large basin of this brew called Sassafras.

Lamb is critical about those women who shows their teeth

Lamb attracted by the smile of chimney sweeper.

His.attitude toward chimney sweepers is humantarian.

Samra Munir 72
Line:

Then we Had our toasts--

Explanation:

Lamb closes the account of the feast of young sweepers held at

Smithfield under the supervision of his dear friend James White,
with a reference to toasts – that is the persons and objects
mentioned at the time of health-drinking ceremony.

Line:

The King- the Cloth- which whether they understood or not,

Explanation:

The company drank to the health of King of the country, as well

as of the cloth which may be taken to mean either the
brotherhood of the clergymen of the chimney sweepers.

Line:

was equally diverting and flattering-

Explanation:
The young boys may not have been able to grasp the clear
meaning of any of terms yet they were highly delighted and
flattered by such references.

Line:

All these, and fifty other fancies, where were rather felt than
comprehend by his guests,

Explanation:

This formula was bound to be beyond the comprehension of the

young guests.

Line:

would be utter, standing upon tables, and prefacing every

sentiment with a “Gentlemen, give me a leave to propose so and
so,” which was a prodigious comfort to those young orphans;

Explanation:

He asks again and again, standing with the table and offers all
the respect a Gentlemen wants which allows him to offer such
kind of proposal, this behavior for the orphans was the biggest
comfort.
Line:

Every now and then stuffing into his mouth indiscriminate

pieces of those re eking sausages which pleased them mightily,
and was the savouriest part, you may believe of the
entertainment.

Explanation:

A woman walks around serving the boys sausages and James

pours drink for them. The boys were very pleased. They loved
and enjoyed the entertainment provided to them.

Anam 73

Lines :

Golden lades and lasses must

AS chimney –sweeper come to end

James white is extint and with him these suppers have long
ceased. He carried half the fun of the world when he died of my
world at least .His old client look for him among the pens and
missing him reporch the altered feast of St.Bartholomew and
the glory of smithfield departed forever .
 Words meaning

Lades young boy

Lasses young girl

Suppers evening meal

Ceased comr to end

Client who receive services

Reporch to criticize

Explaination:

Here lambs give refrence of shakespears Qoute that golden

convey a sense of privilege and talent with bright future. The
phrase golden boy/girl to mean a successful man and women .
chimney sweeper clean soot from chimney a dangerous and
terrible job .They were black from soot engrained in the pores
of young men and women shining bright .

The celebration in honour of chimney sweeper ended with death

of james white. James white s lamb friend generally
magnanimous and help the underprivileged lived with pride and
dignity .He throw a yearly feast for children chimney sweeper
lavishing them with food ,ale ,and good company .

Here lambs says that my happiness ended with my friend

death .He took the happiness of chimney sweeper where they
enjoyed meal with him .lambs never forget his client look
mean ready for his services and missing him .lamb criticize the
st.Bartholomew feast .

( saint Bartholomew is one of the twelve apostles in christanity

and his yearly feast is on 24 august in church )

And glory or praise of the Smithfield come to end forever due

to james death .

( smithfield is place of Ireland where jame give food to chimney

sweeper on Bartolomew feast )

Because james white especially invite the young sweepers on

feast after the death of james chimney sweeper never invited to
that feast so lambs reporch feast of st.Bartholomew and glory of
Smithfield were ended.

Raheela Bibi 75