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out which no garden was then complete. Such fountains 
were made with secret arrangements for turning on the 
water, which dropped from birds' bills, or spurted out of 
dolphins or such-like, with an unpleasant suddenness 
which gave the unwary visitor a shower-bath. Other 
fountains played tunes or set curious machinery in 
motion, or otherwise surprised the beholder. From 
the descriptions, this one in the Benchers’ Garden 
doubtless concealed some original variation. It con¬ 
sisted of a lion’s face with a copper scallop shell, and 
a copper cherry-tree with branches, and perhaps the 
water dropped from the haves, One payment in 1700 
occurs -h a r • -vad ; sh the fountain, for a 
cock a r : 0-0 of the 
fountain, ace o--.r rus > T. ■ ■>.':< i-a ■'■"jou , £ t 2 T 
1 coj m erhaps 1 he 
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ro be carefully considered for 
; • ‘ c r rks which Fowler was designing and 
carrying out, and it evidently was brought up to the 
pitch of perfection required of a fountain in those days. 
TV - a was also a summer-house with a paved floor, and 
ar ve with seats. Altogether, even v - u, the 
p;T 1 the strange fountain, the little encloses Dutch 
gan ■ have been an attractive place 
Benchers’ Garden was made, the 
Great Garden was not neglected. Its *r$3 was titled 
to suit r,:mailing taste. Tic C'vxlelhi g must 
have begun to h winter of 1703, as was then resolved 
that “ the trees in the Great Garden? cut down, and- 
