Show AMONG KERS mia amelia B elward tella of she haw la the leomea of st in her story of the toy makers of the tyrol miss amelia B edwards in her peaks mentions many an interesting visit jtb the homes of the working people of st ulrich where so many fays ar made in onea house runs the account we found an old old woman at work magdalena by name she carved cats clogs wolves sheep goats andr elephants she has animals her whole life long and she has no idea how to cut anything else she makes them in two sizes and ahe turns out as nearly as possible a thousand of them a year slie has no model or drawing of any kind to work by but goes on steadily unerringly using gouges of different sizes and shaping out her cats dogs wolves cheep goals and with an ease and an amount of truth to nature that would be clever if it were not utterly mechanical magdalena learned from her mother how to carve these six animals and her mother had learned in like manner from her grandmother magdalena has now taught the art to her own granddaughter and so it will go on being transmitted for generations in another house miss edwards found the whole family carving skulls and crossbones for fixing at the bases of crucifixes cruci fixes for the wood carving of Grod tier thai is religious in its nature as well as amusing in other houses there were families that carved rocking horses or dolls or other toys andin baill other houses there were families of painters in one house says the gifted authoress wo found about a dozen gfrost painting gray horses with black points in another house they painted only red horses with white points it is a separate branch of the trade tto paint saddles and headgear A good hand will paint twelve dozen horses a day each horse being about jone foot in length and for these she is paid fifty five or about bh illings three pence english |