ision into "animate" and "inanimate"--the
good man gave the human race only one soul--followed a system that
looked like a pyramid. On the top was God with the angels and
spirits and other accessories, while the oysters and polyps and
mussels were crawling about down near the base, or lying still--just
as they pleased. Half way up stood kings, members of school-boards,
mayors, legislators, theologians and D.D.'s. Next under these were
professors and merchants who do not work themselves. Then came
doctors of things profane, i. e., those driving double rigs, also
lawyers and untitled preachers, the Colonel of the City Militia,
the Rector of the Latin School. Philosophers (only those who have
developed a system), doctors with one horse, doctors without any
horse and poets were further down. Rather low down, and not far from
the mussels, was the seventh sub-division of the third class of the
"citizen population." Our hero would come under this sub-section.

Citizen Population, Class III., 7th Sub-Division.

People Living in Rented Flats.

a. Entrance for tenants only. Three-window front. Two stories,
with back-rooms. The boys sleep alone, dress, however, with
the girls. Fresh straw in case a baby is born. Learning French,
poems at Christmas. The girls are sometimes called Lena or Maria,
but seldom Louise. Darning. The boys work in offices. One girl
kept, sewing-girl, and "person for the rough work." Washing
at home. Read sermons by Palm. Pickled pork on Sundays, with
table-cloth, liquor after coffee. Religion. Respectability.

b 1. Still three windows. One story. Neighbors live above who ring
twice (Vide b. 2). Leentje, Mietje; Louise heard seldom. House-door
opened with a cord, which is sleek from long use. Sleep in one
room. Straw-heaps in cases of confinement. One maid-servant
for everything. Sundays cheese, no liquor, but religion and
respectability as above.

b 2. Neighbors who ring twice. About as above. No maid, only a
"person for the rough work." Seamstress. White table-cloth. Cheese
from time to time, only occasionally. Religion as above.

c. One story higher. Two-window front. Small projecting
back-room. The entire family sleeps in two beds. No trace of
straw. The boys are called Louw, Piet, or Gerrit, and become
watchmakers or type-setters. A few become sailors. Continual
wrangle with the neighbors about the w