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THE ROYAL SHOW AT MAIDSTONE

... second plaee. It is owned by 'Mr. 'T. D. John, Cardiff. Mr. Walter Winans's (Plucklev. Kent) Golden Dream received the third prize-, and the same exhibitor's Golden Ray was reserved and highly commended. The class of mares or geldings 6imilar in age to ...

THE PASSING SHOW

... for 31. de Morgan, or any other body-snatcher. to he drawn and If engraved with his pointed French boots in the coffin of r a Queen, lifting a golden crown from her head, while a friend with a pointed French beard draws a3 ! picture of the scene to ...

LITERATURE

... Polonaise. For the promenade we observe a single-sole boot, with an interior sole of cork a l'Anglaise. these boots have elastic sides and simulate buttoned boots. For skating, a tightly-laced boot is prepared, with red laces and red tassels, and with ...

CALDER VALE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

... Frirthl, jun.. Halifax. Commended-Win. ,oilSmith. Kent Htouse. Sentries. serl Boot fantaits. 10s., John Firth, jun., Halifax; lad do., Os.. Samuel As~pi- Riohson, Pocklingotrn. Commended-Win. Smith. Kent Housae. 5 tO Beat outers or croppers, lIs,, W. B ...

YORK FLOWER SHOW

... could produce a& horticultbtal disply to eclipse that Made at York, though several ill-informed persons, nd j Southerners to boot, asserted that it altogether oatrivalled any such exhibition that the great metropolis could submit to notice. It was whispered ...

THE JUNE MAGAZINES

... worn; and so wearisome do they prove to button, that by a patent invention gloves can be now had to lace just as shooting-boots fasten-vz., by passing the cord round the buttons. The vandyked borders to gloves have proved so untidy in the wearing that ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... water crowsfoot, a green thready mass of crowsilk, quiver-worts. and quick-mosses, the plate lie leaves of the lilies, and the golden eyes of thb bright marsh marigolds. The sun shining on the babbliun stream transforms it into a band of silver, until a gentle ...

LITERATURE

... glorious greenery, and the leaves and grasses flush out sweeter and greener every hour. The labur- runm will soon be one mass of golden fire, the lilac one blush of starry bloom, all faint with the over- sweetness of its fragrance. The guelder-rose, the mountain ...

LITERATURE

... prosaic, 'England of ours. The potter was Pt work on our shores long before the spear of the Romans glittered on the coases of Kent, but when Caesar's legions came he n-as ?? enough to absorb the hints and -lggestiona of Roman luxury. The Normans seem to ...

LITERATURE

... The Sleeping 3Beauty, Little1 R~ed Riding Hood, HBop-o'-my-Thalnb, Orange anel Lemon, Cinderella, end Foss in Boots, na letter gxift could be secured than this attractive yolume, whilst even those who are already famm-liar With these delightful ...

LITERATURE

... Messrs. IRoutledge's list takes the title of TIEs MxnQues On CAB&nAS, from its principal story' being devoted to 'Puss in Boots; but it also containsi Old Mother Hubbard, Vl'alentine and Orson, and The Absurd A B C '-one of those delightful conceits ...

LITERATURE

... his father when it was too late to be sent hick. The beech forest was blazing in the glory of the August moon, The ground, golden all the year round, by daylight, wils f allen leaves, was nOW a carpet of black purle velvet, with an irregular pattern of ...