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HARRY AND
AND LUCY

CONCLUDED;

BEING THE

LAST PART OF EARLY LESSONS.

BY

MARIA EDGEWORTH.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

The business of Education, in respect of knowledge, is not, as I think, to
perfect a learner in all or any one of the sciences; but to give his mind
that disposition, and those habits, that may enable him to attain any
part of knowledge he shall stand in need of in the future course of his
life.
LOCKE.

SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. HUNTER,

72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD; AND

BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,

47, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1827.

10

LONDON:

PRINTED BY CHARLES WOOD,

Poppin's Court, Fleet Street.

HARRY AND LUCY

CONCLUDED.

OUR travellers next arrived at Frankland Hall, in Staffordshire, where they were to spend three days, with their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Frankland.

The first day at dinner, an old gentleman observed, that the pie dishes of Wedgwood's ware were good contrivances for keeping vegetables hot, and remarked, how very like real pie-crust one of them looked.

Mr. Frankland, who had been an intimate friend of the late Mr. Wedgwood, said that he was present the first day when one of these imitations of pie-crust appeared at dinner: the children of the family did not mistake it for a real pie, and Mr. Wedg

VOL. II.

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wood had new ones made repeatedly, till at last one appeared so perfect, that at a little distance it could not be known from pie-crust. "When I took off the cover,' said Mr. Frankland, "the child next me was agreeably surprised to hear it jingle on the dish."

"Besides this," said the old gentleman, "Mr. Wedgwood made a number of little every-day useful contrivances; that dish, in which there is a well for the gravy. In the olden times, unhappy carvers were obliged to poke under the heavy sirloin for gravy; or to raise and slope the dish, at the imminent hazard of overturning the sirloin, and splashing the spectators. Knife, fork, spoon, slipping all the while, one after another, into the dish! And, ten to one, no gravy to be had after all! Nothing but cakes of cold grease. But now, without poking, sloping, splashing, the happy carver, free from these miseries of life, has only to dip his spoon into a well of pure gravy. Thanks to the invention

of one man, all men, women, and children, may now have gravy without stooping the dish. So I give you, gentlemen and ladies, for a toast, The late Mr. Wedgwood, and the comforts of life.""

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After he had drank his glass of wine, the old gentleman continued speaking:

"I remember that Mr. Coxe, the traveller, was pleased by meeting with a beautiful service of Wedgwood ware in Russia. I dare say he might find one now in Siberia. Last year, when I was in Holland, I learnt, that even the town of Delft, which, for many years, used to furnish all Europe with crockery, is now supplied from England with our Staffordshire ware."

The conversation next turned on China, and Chinese artists.

"They are very exact," said Mr. Frankland," in imitating whatever is bespoken from them, but sometimes they carry this to a degree of provoking stupidity."

Of this he gave an instance. A lady wanted to match some of the plates of a

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