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thighbone extends down two-thirds of his leor, points to a very solid-looking speckled rainbow with one hand, and w1th the other urges forward his pupil to make a closer examination.

Then we have a picture of a scene on the ice, whereon one boyv has come a cropper. the identity of that boy is rather doubttul. He can scarcely be the good boy who wouldn'’t play truant to go and slide, or he wouldn't have come a cropper, cven

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had hic been on the iccat all. On the other hand, he can’t be the bad boy who insisted on doing these wicked things, or he would have talkn clean through the ice and been drowned. Perhaps he 1s a retormed bad bov who came on the ice to warn the others, This seems more likely, since he appears to have only one leg ; he probably lost the other through Lhmbmo after birds’ nests on Sunday, or somcthmo ()f that sort, and then reformed. One can't get mud1 fun, you know, with only onc leg left, =0 may as well reform as not.,

In the early days an artist often had to draw a thing which he had never seen. We have here the ceffort of one of these gen- tlemen who evi- dently had never seen an elephant, and built the face up as well as he could from a human standpoint, with the We won't be personal,

AN ELEPHANT,

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but we believe we have seen a portrzit very like this in somce of the papers.

We have, in the next picture, an oppor- tunity of inspecting the interior ot a boy s’ school of the last century end. Note the little three-cornered hats hung above the scholars’ heads, and the pm‘t(fnt()us array of heavy books over the head of the learned master, in his wig and gown. He opens his palm as thouorh for the benctit of a small boy's cars, but, as there is no small boy %Ufl]ClCI]tl\ near it, perhaps he is only in- dulging in the plCil\UILb of anticipation, The view from the window is particularly

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interesting. The three regular sugar-loat trees, ot the herring-bone species, growing exactly to the same heloht and each exactly filling the width of one window- -panc in the vision, without encroaching upon the others, offer a beautiful lesson 1n order and harmony among neighbours.

A specimen of quite a different class 13 seen in the representation of Polvyphemus, cave, with cloak, staff, and Pandean pipes. The bold, free draw- ing of the King of the Cyclops 1s of the school of Blake, but there arc points in the