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assaults of the English climate and to the slow invasion of 

 lichen. In a little garden the motif of the sporting child 

 is always fresh. Fortunately, there are many skilful artists 

 who have turned their hands to modelling boys, winged 

 and wingless, busy with every sort of merry employment. 

 A few are illustrated here, some old, some new. The 

 youngster at Temple Dinsley (Fig. 318) who surveys us, 

 shield in hand and rather soberly, raises a question as to 

 the placing of statues. Nowhere do they look better or 

 more reasonable than on the top of gate-piers. Their size 

 seems less than when they are nearer to the eye-level, and 

 from a practical point of view they are better than large 

 open vases, which it may be difficult to keep supplied 



FIG. 324. MODELLED BY JAN VAN NOST. 



FIG. 323. A PIPING BOY. 



with growing flowers. 

 Best of all, they give a 

 human welcoming 

 quality to the forecourt 

 over which they seem 

 to preside. A very at- 

 tractive pair is the leaden 

 Youth and Maiden 

 dressed in eighteenth 

 century costume that 

 nod and beckon to each 

 other from neighbouring 

 gate - piers at Papillon 

 Hall (Figs. 320-1). They 

 are only about four feet 



