A SQUIRREL'S FERRY-BOAT.
rTo ms EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1
Snt,—You said in your note in the issue of October 9th on this subject: "The squirrel who hoisted his own tall in the breeze should have an illustration by Dicky Doyle all to himself." I think you may like to know that this adventurous squirrel has an illustration all to himself by Mr. Arthur Hughes, who with Holman Hunt is the only survivor of the great men of the Preraphaelite circle, and whose pictures have made fairyland for so many generations of children. The writer is the happy possessor of the original, and it is repro- duced in Messrs. Longmans' "Babies' Classics" as an illus- tration to William Howitt's poem, "The Migration of the Grey Squirrels," which has been mentioned by several of your correspondents.—I am, Sir, &c., W. L. T.
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