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OLD WEST SURREY 



of its kind. It is of coarse yellow and brown- splashed 

 earthenware. On the face of the body is incised, evidently 



with the point of a stick, the name 

 Mary Smith, and a rude figure of 

 three trees, with the date 1837. 

 Probably it was not made for any 

 special Mary Smith, but was a 

 pattern to be sold at fairs, where 

 so common a name would be likely 

 to fit some one in a rustic crowd. 

 The oak puzzle money-box appears to have been made 

 by a clever carpenter. The picture shows how it holds 

 together by the tight gripping of each edge of its six sides. 

 One side is made slightly narrower than the others, and 

 can be just released by the forcible pressing back of two 

 of the projections. When it is put in again it is sprung 

 into place by force. 



Oak Puzzle Money-Box 



I know nothing of the history of the pretty domino-box, 

 except that it came from a cottage near my home. It 



Bone Domino-Box 



is made of bone, with funny little hand-painted pictures of 

 trees and houses, and people in the dress of the eighteenth 

 century. They are on paper under glass. 



