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purple cloth, pencilled with, fine slate-coloured corded silk. 

 The tiger-lilies, very small in scale, are of orange plush. 

 The leaves of the rose are of pale green cloth, heavily 

 worked over with very tine worsted crewel of nearly the 

 same colour ; the petal part of the rose and buds are of 

 floss silk. Work of this kind is generally done with a 

 more restricted set of materials. This worker may have 

 had only scraps, but the use of any sort of material that 



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was at hand did no harm to the work. It has the attraction 

 of a thing that is perfectly sincere, showing the worker's 

 delight in the things portrayed, and in the actual doing of 

 the pretty, whimsical little picture. The auricula and the 

 strawberries are life-size, the frame 1 1 inches square. 



Where there were pictures in the older cottages they 

 were for the most part of Bible subjects. The 'Return out 

 of Egypt ' is a small engraving of a conventional character 

 that is not without merit, but that is spoilt by being very 

 badly painted — apparently by a child. The two pictures of 



