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thing least likely to attract attention. They dress 

 exactly like flowers, and change with the seasons, 

 putting on white when lilies are in and blue for 

 blue-bells, and so on. They like crocus and 

 hyacinth time best of all, as they are partial to a 

 bit of colour, but tulips (except white ones, which 

 are the fairy-cradles) they consider garish, and they 

 sometimes put off dressing like tulips for days, so 

 that the beginning of the tulip weeks is almost the 

 best time to catch them. 



J. M. BABKIE. 



THE CHILD AND THE SUN-DIAL 



(From " The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple") 



WHAT an antique air had the now almost effaced 

 sun-dials, with their moral inscriptions, seeming co- 

 evals with that Time which they measured, and to 

 take their revelations of its flight immediately from 

 heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain 

 of light ! How would the dark line steal imper- 

 ceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager 

 to direct its movement, never catched, nice as an 

 evanescent cloud, or the first arrests of sleep ! 



CHAELES LAMB. 



NEPHON'S SONG 



LADY and gentleman fays, come buy ! 

 No pedlar has such a rich packet as 1. 



