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REPORT ON FANCY ARTICLES. 



Once again, and for the eighteeth time in the annals of the 

 Marshfield Agricultural Society, " the rain and summer sun- 

 shine throve the fruits and grain which blessed the honest toil," 

 of its members, but if a strict account had not been kept of the 

 season, one might have supposed that a great mistake had been 

 made by the Leader of the Grand March of Agricultural Fairs, 

 which follow one after the other. 



The sun had been such an unusual visitor, at this time, that 

 none complained if he rather overdid the business by making 

 us think it was midsummer. 



It is quite the custom to compare the present with the past, 

 but if we look for the good in every year, we shall forget all 

 about the others. The array of Fancy Articles was very good, 

 and included many novelties, though we ofter wonder what new 

 things can be thought of each year. The walls and tables of 

 the hall are shorn of their beauty, but we can look back on 

 memory's hall and see the various pictures, afghans, etc. 



Miss C. A. Eandall, of West Duxbury, exhibited some very 

 pleasing effects of her year's work. A thermometer-stand with 

 some narcissus painted on satiu background, might cause us to 

 forget the thermometer, and so " take the weather as it comes;" 

 some wild roses, painted on tin, were very pretty ; also, an 

 autumn scene, one of winter, a marine view, and view of 

 schooner Headlight in Maine. We hope she will have as many 

 more another year, at least. 



