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ones of Haggai. Mowing. Note the lovely flowers sculptured all through the grass. Cancer above, with his shell superbly modelled. | |
| 51. | July.—Reaping. Extremely beautiful. The smiling lion completes the evidence that all the seasons and signs are regarded as alike blessing and providentially kind. |
| 50. | August.—Threshing. Virgo above, holding a flower, her drapery very modern and confused for thirteenth-century work. |
| 49. | September.—I am not sure of his action, whether pruning, or in some way gathering fruit from the full-leaved tree. Libra above;
charming. |
| 48. | October.—Treading grapes. Scorpio, a very traditional and gentle form—forked in the tail indeed, but stingless. |
| 47. | November.—Sowing, with Sagittarius, half concealed when this photograph was taken by the beautiful arrangements always now going on for some job or other in French cathedrals:—they never can let them alone for ten minutes. |
48. And now, last of all, if you care to see it, we will go into the Madonna's porch—only, if you come at all, good Protestant feminine reader
