180 POULTRY' HOUSES. 



have been discovered, by her Majesty, to be totally unsuited to 

 the more enlightened system of 1849, and hence, under the direc- 

 tion of her Majesty and Prince Albert, assisted by Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Wemyss, Lord Lincoln, and Mr. Engall, her Majesty's 

 intelligent and respected bailiff, an entire reorganization of the 

 establishment has been determined, and is now in progress. In 

 these pursuits, and in her continued prosecution of them, the 

 Queen has, in our opinion, exhibited sound judgment and a 

 healthy taste. There are some, we know, who would have the 

 Queen to be " every inch a Queen" even to the forsaking of her 

 humanity. But, no! the Queen both thinks and acts after a 

 very different fashion ; and it has resulted that in all the royal 

 arrangements of the present reign, there is to be found that love 

 of neighbourhood, and that affectionate interest in the every-day 

 furniture of life, which is so truthfully depicted in the following 

 lines of a Scottish poet ; and in which, we may be allowed to say, 

 we most heartly acquiesce : 



" I love the neighbourhood of man and beast : 

 I would not place my stable out of sight. 

 No ! close behind my dwelling it should form 

 A fence on one side, to my garden plot. 

 What beauty equals shelter, in a clime 

 Where wintry blasts with summer breezes blend, 

 Chilling the day ? How pleasant 'tis to hear 

 December's winds, amid surrounding trees, 

 Raging aloud ! How grateful 'tis to wake 

 While raves the midnight storm, and hear the sound 

 Of busy grinders at the well-filled rack ; 

 Or flapping wing and crow of chantileer, 

 Long ere tbe lingering morn ; or bouncing flails, 

 That tell the dawn is near ! Pleasant the path 

 By sunny garden wall, when all the fields 

 Are chill and comfortless ; or barn-yard snug, 

 Where flocking birds, of various plume, and chirp 

 Discordant, cluster on the leaning stack, 

 From whence the thrasher draws the rustling sheaves." 



We may be allowed, then, to agree with her Majesty in thin- 

 king, that the farm, the dairy, and even the kennel of the Home 

 Park, are amongst the best embellishments of the royal domain 

 of Windsor. 



The fowl-house, designed and built by Messrs. Bedborough and 

 Jenner, of Sheet-street, Windsor, is a semigothic building, of 

 simple and appropriate beauty. It consists, as our engraving 

 shows, of a central pavilion, used for inspecting the fowls- 

 crowned, on the top, by an elegant dove-cot, and on the sides, 



