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Show TALES TOLD BY OLD POTTERY. Old Stoneware That Brings to Mind Half-rorgotten Customs. Pottery students nnd colli ctors find much to chnrm thorn In the old ware Ihej hohietlmoh hit upon. For Instnnce Mlr-ah Salt of lluxton, England. w.v the Philadelphia Hecord. has gathered eleven pieces of pottery Illustrating the sports of hoar-halting, billl-tlghting and cock fighting. Homo or them aie of Nottingham ma!.p and probably date fiom the seventeenth sev-enteenth cenluiy. They aie all drinking drink-ing vciM'Is. Tho hears are shown muzzled ami In various attitudes Shakcppnic has references to the sport of iKar-baltlng. Hear gardens, each kept by n liearsward, were common com-mon In his day. Hull-lighting and cockfight cock-fight lug are alto Illustrated. The figure fig-ure of Hip cock Is formed of the ware which Is characteristic of tho Ashury-Wood Ashury-Wood perioil and previous to the cream were development of Joslah Wedgwood. The yellowish wbito Is shaded by patches of brown. The black eye Is chaiactpristlc of the period. |