Scribner's magazine . lack velvet cat stares atone from white porcelain-l)utton needle-woman of the old inn musthave had great taste for natural his-tory subjects, since besides the multi-farious floral designs and the familiar animals of the home and farm-yard, she has fashioned out of hercrude api)liquc work numerousbirds of various kinds. There areblue birds with yellow wings andyellow birds with blue wings,green birds with bright-red wingsand eyes! there are black birdswith red wings and red birds withblue wings, and other interestingornithological vagaries. To besure, there is an
Scribner's magazine . lack velvet cat stares atone from white porcelain-l)utton needle-woman of the old inn musthave had great taste for natural his-tory subjects, since besides the multi-farious floral designs and the familiar animals of the home and farm-yard, she has fashioned out of hercrude api)liquc work numerousbirds of various kinds. There areblue birds with yellow wings andyellow birds with blue wings,green birds with bright-red wingsand eyes! there are black birdswith red wings and red birds withblue wings, and other interestingornithological vagaries. To besure, there is an utter lack of per-spective, and tlie pigeons (?) sit-ting on the ridge-pole, whose headsconsiderably oveitop the greats(|uare chimney, are somewhat outof proportion. What a giant ^^iesuch birds would have made forsome hungry wayfarer seeking en-tertainment at the roadside tav-ern I It was only after the closet-bed of Anglo-Saxon times, or the high- 4 panelled Him meJhett had given way to other forms more open to view. Large Block from the Quilt of the Inn. from without, that attention was paidto the appearance of bed - spread orcoverlet. In the middle of the fif-teenth centur} woven coverlets seemto have come into use in the Nether-lands, while they were introduced intoScandinavian countries about half acentury later. In England the growthof taste in adorning the bed-coveringsseems to have been more rapid, for Neck-am speaks of ornamental quilts in thelatter part of the twelfth century, and acoverlet found in the palace of the Dukeof Lancaster, during the popular upris-ing of 1381, was worth a thousand centuries later, among articles for a bed for Queen Elizabeth, was a counterpoint of orange-colored satinquilted with cut-work of cloths of goldand silver, of satins of every imaginabletint, and embroidered with Venice gold,silver spangles, and colored silks fringedto correspond, and lined with orangesarcenet.* Such splendors were at leastequalled in Sweden by a bed-co
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