Courtesy of A. Lofthouse
the willow pattern
The plate of which this is a photograph was brought to America from England about 1875; it had at that time been in the possession of one family for a hundred years.
THE CUB’S TRIUMPH
Once upon a time there lived in a forest a badger and a mother fox with one little Cub.
There were no other beasts in the wood, because the hunters had killed them all with bows and arrows, or by setting snares. The deer, and the wild boar, the hares, the weasels, and the stoats—even the bright little squirrels—had been shot, or had fallen into traps. At last, only the badger and the fox, with her young one, were left, and they were starving, for they dared not venture from their holes for fear of the traps.