ABOUT BUYING A HORSE. 57 



Academy List for next year, "No. 299. ^A Rural Dean' 

 by IMillais." There he'd be reclining in a meadow, on 

 freshly-made sweet hay : lambkins, with blue ribbon, frisk- 

 ing by his side : flageolet in his right hand : garlands and 

 flowers all about him anyhow : an overturned bowl of 

 syllabub on the short-cropped grass : and one of his shoes 

 off, with a garter strap loose, showing the cotton work and 

 pattern (a great chance for an artist) of the stocking. Laugh- 

 ing girls, with roses and posies, might be seen in the dis- 

 tance dancing towards him, accompanied by boy-choristers 

 in white surphces, and there should be a church (as a back- 

 ground) among the old rook-inhabited trees, so as not to 

 lose sight of the ecclesiastical character an fond. 



I freely make a present of this beautiful idea to any R.A., 

 or to every one of them, for they could all treat it from their 

 different points of view. For instance : — 



63. '■'' Rural Dean^ with his celebrated Sheep-dog^ Toby.''' — 

 R. Ansdell, R.A. 



Zt. ^' Broken Advozuson."— v. H. Calderon, R.A. 



" Behind the hedge she sobbed unseen, 

 And heard her faithless Rural Dean." 



The Cure, Book iii., Canto 4. 



IC5. ^'- The Boulogne Boat, Laiiding of the Rural Dean at 

 Folkestone:'—^ . P. Frith, R.A. 



4. " The Rural Deanery."—]. C. HORSLEY, R.A. 



" The apartments, five in all, were en suite, leading into one another 

 by a succession of doors, and through the most remote, when all were 

 open, as on this occasion, might have been seen, very much in per- 



