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innocence and loveliness, with these frail yet touching symbols of 

 purity. Possibly, too, they may have a higher end — appealing to 

 our sensibility as revelations of the divine Ideal in these limited 

 forms, speaking of Him in whose mind all ideas of the Beautiful 

 originate, and foreshadowing unfading and eternal realities. Or 

 as Kuckert sings : 



" The flowers will tell to thee a sacred, mystic story, 

 How moistened earthly dust can wear celestial glory ; 

 On thousand stems is found the love inscription graven, — 

 How beautiful is earth when it can image Heaven ! " 



ROBERT WATT, Chairman. 



West Roxlury, Nov. 28, 1861. 



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REPORT ON BREAD. 



Wheat Bread. 



First premium to Mrs. Lewis Pond, of Foxboro', . . $3.00 

 Second premium to Mrs. E. B. Metcalf, of Franklin, . 2.00 



Wheat and Indian. 

 First premium to Mrs. C. C. Sewall, of Medfield, . . 3.00 

 Second premium to Mrs. Nathan LongfelloAV, of Needham, 2.00 



Unbolted Wheat. 

 First premium to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, of Needham, 3.00 

 Second premium to Miss Mary Longfellow (fifteen years 



old), of Needham, 2.00 



Rye and Indian. 

 First premium to Miss H. L, Pond, of Wrentham, . 3.00 



Second premium to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, of Needham, 2.00 



EDMUND QUINCY, Chairman. 

 Bedham, Sept. 25, 1861. 



REPORT ON THE DAIRY. 



Butter — best jJroduce on the farm. 



Second premium to E. T. Everett, of Wrentham, . $8.00 



Third premium to John Mansfield, of Needham, . . 5.00 



