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Evening Star, Issue 15073, 3 January 1913, Page 7

Mies Brown was giving an elaborate 'description of a blacksmith preparatory- to teaching Longfellow's poem to her pupils. The story is told in the ' Housekeeper.' Aow, children/' she said, "we are going to loam a poem today about eomeone who works very hard. Ho is very large and has great arms that can lift such heavv things. His face is blackened with fioot, that comes from hi* great, blazing fires. And he wears a dirty blackapron, and he has a fire that glows oh, so red, and. whenever he makes anything he puts it into his fire, and then pounds it with a great big hammer, which makes the loudest, clanging noise, and makes the sparits Hy about in every direction Now who can tell me what I have been desnnbing? ' A little maid who had been istenmg to these vivid details with eves twice their natural size sprang to her Jeet and said in an awed whisper : "The JJevil! Local authorities don't always seem to appreciate free exhibitions of skill and strength that a.re calculated to brighten and render more attractive some of our public parks'. For instance, the other day the YVillesden (London) magistrates impo*sed a fine of half a crown on a Mrs Smith, who chased her husband round a public park with «.- hatpin. That wasn't a " fine" a p. preciatiou of the Smiths' race.