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drawers full of patterns for colour, and odds and ends 

 of material too many to enumerate. Then there is a 

 carpenter's bench with the usual wood screw, and at 

 one end an engineer's vice, a tool chest, nests of drawers 

 for nails, screws, and such small tackle, and a tall cup- 

 board with many shelves holding handy long-shaped 

 boxes like long di-awers, one for brad-awls, one for 

 files, one for soldering gear, and many others for such- 

 like subdivisions. A shelf runs all round the work- 

 shop walls about eighteen inches below the ceiling, 

 except where windows come, or where tall cupboards 

 run up the whole height. On it is arranged a collec- 

 tion of pottery, gathered out of many lands; thick- 

 handled jugs and pitchers of southern France, large 

 and bold and one may almost say luscious of form, 

 and of rich though not gaudy colouring of green 

 or orange glaze. Then there are several pieces of 

 black ware from Spain, and from Spain also jugs 

 and large dishes of a dull blue on dull white, a quiet 

 colouring of excellent harmony. Swiss earthenware 

 buff-glazed ; short upright jugs striped and spotted 

 in many colourings ; soup-tureens and dishes decorated 

 with the heraldic bears of Berne. Turkish and Arab 

 pottery, mostly unglazed, and some pieces of Khabyle 

 ware, curious because they are not formed on a wheel, 

 but are laboriously built up by hand. One large 

 piece is shaped irmch like a Roman amphora ; all are 

 painted with buff and dull red and stripings of dull 

 black. Then there are Italian wine-jugs inscribed 



