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The Highland shepherd and shepherdess are better 

 modelled, their sheep especially ; some simple ceramic 

 process giving a good imitation of the woolly coat. The 

 shepherdess wears a wonderful sort of turban. 



The third picture of chimney ornaments has again a 

 house, with scarlet doors and windows and a mossy roof, 

 evidently done by the same method as the sheep's fleeces. 

 The pair of ornaments to right and left are flower-holders, 



Cottage Chimney Ornaments 



and are quite pretty things of white china with a raised white 

 flower-and-leaf decoration partly gilt. I can remember when 

 this class of chimney ornament was sold at country fairs, 

 such as the yearly fair at St. Catherine's Hill near Guildford ; 

 the ' Catt'n Hill ' of local speech. The same kind of orna- 

 ment was also to be bought in china shops, as well as a 

 better type, like second-rate Chelsea. 



How well, and at how early an age, little girls were 

 taught to use their needles may be seen by the samplers of 

 the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They have now 



