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mentions two other
from an illuminated
1d the horfe driving
which the geefe perform their taik. Mr. Jewitt nlentic
fubjeets belonging to this feries, one of them taken from a
manufcript; they are, the moufe chafing the cat, and the
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"The World turned upfide clown; or, the Folly of Man," has
continued amonglt us to be a popular chap-book and child's book till
within a very few years, and I have now a copy before me printed in
London about the year 1790. It confills of a feries of rude woodcuts,
with a few doggrel verfes under each. One of thefe, entitled " The Ox
turned Farmer," reprefents two men drawing the plough, driven by an
ox. In the next, a rabbit is feen turning the fpit on which a man is
roaiting, while a cock holds a ladle and bafces. In a third, we fee a
tournament, in which the horfes are armed and ride upon the men.
Another reprefents the ox killing the butcher. In others we have birds
netting men and women; the als, turned miller, employing the man-
miller to carry his lacks; the horfe turned groom, and currying the man;
and the tithes angling for men and catching them.
In a cleverly fculptured ornament in Beverley Minfter, reprefented in
our cut No. 57, the goofe herfelf is reprefented in a grotefque fituation,
which