Another key industry in danger.
UNFINISHED DRAWING FOR "PUNCH" BY THE LATE F. H. TOWNSEND.
The figure of the little girl was sketched on the morning of his death. The legend which this picture was to illustrate is not known.
MAYBIRDS.
I can see some justification for keeping peacocks, especially if you have shaven lawns and terraces and sundials, though sundials, I imagine, are rather a nuisance now-a-days, because of the trouble of having them reset for summer and winter time. Peacocks at any rate are beautiful, and, if their voices are apt in England to become a little hoarse, that is only because they screech when the weather is going to be bad.
The pheasant is also a useful and beautiful fowl. One may put down bread-crumbs to attract the pheasant to one's garden when he is alive, or to one's plate when he is dead.