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been also for the most part ' collected,' but I know of several 

 cottage folk who have the wisdom to ' hold by ' their great- 

 grandmothers' work, and who 

 have resisted the offers of 

 the travelling dealer. 



Trees, birds, and animals, 

 baskets of fruit and flowers, 

 and flowery sprays are 

 worked in coloured silk on 

 a kind of open woollen 

 canvas — something like a 

 loose bunting ; the treatment 

 of the objects and the stiff 

 border patterns suggesting 

 an ancestry of some hundreds of years. 



The worker of the pretty sampler in the dark wooden 

 frame is still well and hearty, and to this day, in her eightieth 

 year, is a beautiful needlewoman. The last line says, ' Ann 



Pair of Chimney Ornaments 



A Set of Chimney Ornaments 



Attryde her work aged ten years June the 3, 1834.' Most 

 of these samplers have alphabets and numerals. Probably 

 this good worker had practised these simpler things at an 



