[MR. JOSIAH SMITH'S BALLOON JOURNEY. from Belgravia.]
[NUMBER 7639. by Mary Frances Peard.]
[GONERIL. by A. Mary F. Robinson.]
[OUT OF THE SEASON. from Temple Bar]
LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE
INTRODUCTORY.
Lob Lie-By-The-Fire—the Lubber-fiend, as Milton calls him—is a rough kind of Brownie or House Elf, supposed to haunt some north-country homesteads, where he does the work of the farm labourers, for no grander wages than