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sion, ** You're quite tiddv-doll,” or * Tiddy-

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however, to Tearn that a witch has to whip

fol-loll,” addressed to a brilliantly attired her broomstick to make 1t go; and one

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The lady with cucumbers on a barrow was mvariably present i these *“cries.” Here the cucumbers might very well be ovsters, or sausages, or anvthing clse. The knife-grinder 1s ceven His machince

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more 1mteresting. 1s ot a kind quite unknown to mortal eye nowadays. One docsn’t quite sce how the grind- stone 1s driven, or, indeed, quite wherce the grindstone 15, but no doubt 1t 15 all right, or the

worthy tradesman wouldn't look so happy.

Anybody who 1s doubttul as to the exact appearance of a hob- goblin, a witch, or a fairy may be satished by a glance at the next three

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blocks. When a hobgoblin wishes to attend to his correspondence, he doesn't sit betore a table in the ordinary way, but has a hole made in the table and hangs his legs through it. This s simple and economi- cal, although 1t would scem to be a hittle awkward, particularly with a table having only two legs. Most of the hobgoblins appear to be fitted out with every convenience for personal enjoymeit, including wings, tails, stings, &c., although one unfor- tunate has to be content with a very large head and a fowl's legs and no trunk or arms.

The witches arc quite conven- tional. Itis a little surprising,

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SwInging a great besom about in the air. The moon 1s i cclipse, as i3 proper at times of witchery, but the stars are all right, and, ifany- thing, rather bigeger than usual. One often hears theatrical people speak of a **thin housc.” The house on the right-hand side of the picture appears to be one of thesc.

The tairies arc rather better dressed than once might expect. Frock coats and breeches are really quite respectable. The ladies wear steeple-crowned hats and laced bodices, which Ieads to the supposition that they are Welsh fairies. A convenlent door 1s neatly Ict ito an adjoin.

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