Chats on Old Copper and Brass

by Fred. W. Burgess

We must, however, fain pass over street-lighting for the lanterns which have been copied so many times in more recent days. Apropos of lanterns of copper carried by the wary traveller and of the copper lightning conductor on the church steeple, an indispensable feature still, the following lines are quoted:

"In the olden time, along the street,

A glimmering lantern led the feet

When on a midnight stroll;

But now we catch, when night is night,

A piece of lightning from the sky

And stick it on a pole."

FIG. 51.—OLD BRASS LANTERN.
(In the Sunderland Museum.)