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Mouth." TItis a very magnificent mouth, at which the bull appears rather scared, as well he may. He seems to be considering the advisability of going in, but doesn't feel quite safe m venturing., This ix one of the instances of the cor- ruption of the title of an older ign. Originally it was the ' Boulogne Mouth,” and reterred to the mouth of Boulogne Harbour, being , adoptcd as an 1nn LU AND MOUTH, SIgN 1 commemora-
tion of the taking of Boulogne in the reign of Henry VIILL The " Goat and Com- passes ' (originally ** God Encompasses Us ) 15 a similar case.
Onc woodceut from grandfather's picture- book (or was this from grandmother's?) gives us some information about the inside of a shop in the dayvs when Tadies wore their waists just under their armpits. The polite shopman, in a wig, shows a picce of ribbon to the two ladies in big bonnets. The transaction is a verv similar onc to
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A contrast to this is =cen 1n the queer N e little cut in which a woman is cither dryv- V2274 W 24 NS S ing the tearsof a little irl or punching her [IREVAN) i the eyve. It 1s from one of the goody hooks, and the absence of much of the right side ot the girl's face seems rather to point to punching than tear dryving.
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those of to-day, but we geta glimpse of the old squarc-pancd shop window ; and the cut 1s rather crude and quaint.
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Another queer little wood-cut 1s a mere mtention, of course, was instruction—the copy of an inn sign, which was rather hittle grandfather would become familiar popular in old davs—the * Bull and with the outline of the object while learn-
PUNCHING ?—0OF TEAR DRYING ?