THE 



BROWNIE-JUGS AND 

 THE BROWNIE 



April 28th 



LL through the winter months 

 we might have seen our brown- 

 ie-jugs, as large as hazel-nuts, 

 neatly secured to various twigs 

 in the thickets, but I have pass- 

 ed them until I could bring the 

 reader face to face with the lit- 

 tle potter that is responsible for 

 them. 



He has been in hiding during the 

 cold months, and was to be known 

 only by his works; but now he is 

 out again, and will soon make his 

 first jug after the pattern that his 

 ancestors have handed down to him ; 

 ' for long before the human vase-maker 

 fashioned his clay upon the wheel these 

 little jugs were being turned out by 

 Eumenes fraterna. Such is the name his 

 historians have given him. 



Jugs serve a variety of uses, but none of human fash- 

 ioning is ever used for precisely such purposes as these 

 of Eumenes i which serve as a receptacle for treasure, a 

 larder, and a home as well. 



