THE LEGEND OF THE BRIAR-ROOT.
(Suggestion for companion subject to "The Briar Rose," by E. Burne-Jones, A.R.A., now exhibiting at Messrs. Agnew & Sons' Gallery, Bond Street.)
| The Briar-Wood Pipe. Effect on the Smokers. The fateful odour fumes and goes About the angle of the Nose. | The Bed-Room. They smoked and smoked a pipe a-piece: Thus did their drowsiness increase. |
| Short Cut through the Garden. The Maidens thought the pipe to fill: They smoked, and now they all lie still. | The Nose Bower. La Belle Pipe-en-Bois Dormant. 'Twas five o'clock, the hour of tea; But, having smoked, they're as you see. |