Walter Crane

“ ALL Lions have tails: some—like the one here—remarkably long ones. Some Lionels I know have “Legends” instead. The Lionel for which these were made is a great devourer of them, and he also has an appetite for pictures to paint. ”

“ But Lionel takes to another branch of the black business,
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and, followed by his tinker’s dog, he trundles his workshop.
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On the common he meets a pot and a kettle in hot dispute:
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having mended their little difference with a bit of cracked looking glass,
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further on he meets with some keen customers,
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and a whole population of pots and pans,
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besides sets of fire-irons waiting to be set on their legs. ”

“ He sees dim and cloudy outlines,
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across a white expanse, dotted with sugar-plums,
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which led him to a little house in a garden of Xmas-Trees.
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The door was opened by a stately Turkey,
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supported by attendant sausages
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