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term will be on the Satyrs of Juvenal." Harry put up the 

 following underneath: 1 



" The Satyr of old was a Satyr of note, 

 With the head of a Man and the legs of a Goat; 

 But the Satyr of Jesus does these far surpass 

 With the Shanks of a Sheep and the head of an Ass." 



He published a delightful child's story illustrated by 

 himself, The Bird-Talisman. In her old age my mother had 

 it reprinted so as to preserve it for the family, where it is 

 appreciated by his great nephews and nieces. 



Frank worked steadily at the Potteries till quite old age. 

 He was as absolutely unselfoccupied as man could be, 

 and lived an admirable life hard-working and almost 

 stoical in its simplicity. 



Hensleigh was a high Wrangler and Fellow of Christ's. 

 He was well known as a philologist and was author of the 

 Dictionary of English Etymology and other works. 



At the end of this large family of brothers and sisters 

 came two little girls, Frances, born 1806, and Emma, born 

 May 2nd, 1808, when her mother was 44 years old. The 

 two children formed an inseparable pair, and were the pets 

 of the family. The " Doveleys ' is the name by which 

 they are known in many of the letters. Their mother wrote 

 from Cresselly, 25 Aug., 1812, "I am glad that the Doveleys 

 are good and agreeable. Theirs are the only pretensions 

 I like. ' 3 At the date of the f ollowing letter Fanny and Emma 

 were seven and five years old. 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen. 



ETRURIA, July 15th, 1813. 



.... I am so deeply in debt to you all, dear girls, for 

 your agreeable letters and pleasant details of all you have 

 done, are doing, and are going to do, that I don't know 

 where to begin, but I have made a beginning more to shew 



1 Mr Tuckwell in his Recollections of Oxford has erroneously 

 attributed this skit to Dr Nares, Oxford Professor of Modern History. 

 On Shelf ord, an unpopular examiner, Harry wrote: 



" They say that men pluck geese in Shelf ord Fen, 

 But here we see a Shelford goose pluck men." 



