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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 a little story 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 Tate Gallery.

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