THE CHEMICAL FARMYARD
... ( From Punch's Pocket-hook.) lately visited one of (he scenes of our youth. It was formerly a farmyard. found it strangely altered. a distance took for a factory: where stacks hay had stood formerly, there were now only stacks chimneys, and ricks were replaced by gasometers. A dense cloud hung over the spot; and on our nearer approach, instead of the old familiar cackling, quacking, crowing, ...