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Fireplace. 



set to work to draw examples of them ; as also a 

 water-pot, and in particular of some paintings on the 

 walls of one or two houses, done with white chalk 

 and black and red paint 

 obtained from reeds. In the 

 design produced on next 

 page it will be noticed that 

 the riders not only have 

 both legs on the same side 

 of their horses, as is, I be- 

 lieve, common in primitive 

 art, but that they are on 

 the farther side, which is less 

 usual. The owner was very 

 proud of his fresco, and he 

 and his friends sat round 

 on the low mud rail which 

 encircled the wall as a 

 goat-pen, and watched Mrs 

 Talbot draw. 



He could not tell us the names of all the animals 

 represented, but the figure directly above the white 

 man in a tall hat is that of a woman milking a cow. 



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Water-pot. 



