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Two birds flying high, A Chinese vessel, sailing by.A bridge with three men, sometimes four,A willow tree, hanging o'er.A Chinese temple, there it stands,Built upon the river sands.An apple tree, with apples on,A crooked fence to end my song.TRANSCRIPT
Tunstall Burslem Hanley Stoke Fenton Longton
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The winning boat, long preceded by its horse, crawled un-der the bridge & passed northwards to the sea, laden with crates of earth-enware. And then the loser, with the little girl's father & mother & her broth-ers & sisters, & her kitchen, drawing-room, & bedroom, & h e r s m o k i n g
c h i m n e y & h e r memories & all that was hers, in the stern of it, slid be-neath the boys' down-turned faces w h i l e t h e w h i p cracked away be-yond the bridge. They could see, be-tween the whitened tarpaulins, that the deep belly of the crat was filled with clay."Where does t h a t t h e r e c l a y come from?" asked E d w i n . F o r n o t
merely was he hon-estly struck by a sudden new curiosi-ty, but it was meet for him to behave like a man now, & to ask manly ques-t i o n s ." R u n co r n ," said the Sunday scornfully. "Can't you see it painted a l l o v e r t h e boat?""Why do they bring clay all the w a y f r o m
R u n co r n ? " " T h e y don't bring it from R u n c o r n . T h e y bring it from Corn-w a l l . I t c o m e s round by sea-see?" He laughed."Who told you?" Edwin r o u g h l y d e m a n d e d ."A n y-body knows that!" said the Sunday grandly, but always maintaining his gay smile."Seems devil-ish funny to me," Edwin murmured, ate r r e f l e c t i o n ,
Cover: 'Potter' by John Moyr Smith (Minton)
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CLAY
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"that they should bring clay all that roundabout way just to make crocks o f i t h e re . W h y should they choose just this place to make crocks in? I al-w a y s understood-""Oh! Come on!" the Sun-day cut him short. "It's blessed well o n e o ' c l o c k & ater!"
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Two birds flying high, A Chinese ves-sel, sailing by. A bridge with three men, sometimes four, A willow tree, hanging o'er. A Chi-nese temple, there it stands, Built upon the river sands. An apple tree, with ap-ples on, A crooked fence to end my song.
The Willow Pattern
Crockery
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