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 of this phenomenon upon the good folk of Paisley, who pace about pre­occupied with earth and their own affairs, having no eyes for the clouds or what lies beyond. (I call the town Paisley, not because I have ever been there to recognise it, but one of the ladies is taking the air in a Paisley shawl, and anyhow I don’t know where else it is likely to be.)

No. 40, The Fairy Wife (a most poetical thing to my mind) was first drawn for by Mr. Maurice Hewlett—a gem afterwards reset and since famous as Pan and the Young Shepherd. No. 19, Marjorie and Margaret, is a portrait study, more or less. No. 37, Cupid’s Alley, was inspired by Mr. Austin Dobson’s well-known poem. This drawing hangs in the.