_The Right of Translating Articles from_ HOUSEHOLD WORDS _is reserved by the Authors_. Published at the Office, No. 16, Wellington Street North, Strand. Printed by BRADBURY & EVANS, Whitefriars, London. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES This is from Volume XIII of the series. New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. Transcriber has generated a Table of Contents. This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text. Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the ends of their paragraphs. Itemized changes from the original text: On page 2, changed “ouside” to “outside”, in “the bare earth outside their hovels.” On page 4, changed “broad, streak” to “broad streak”, in “a broad streak of sky” On page 6, changed “litle” to “little”, in “two wretched little bed-chambers” On page 7, changed “way” to “away”, in “finally threw them away; not so” On page 7, changed “acquintance” to “acquaintance”, in “should have made acquaintance with the magician” On page 9, changed “couin” to “cousin”, in “on the subject of his cousin Lucy.”