As is the case with so many of us who are anxious to put our best foot foremost, everything was abstracted from the rear in order to create a show in the front.

Then to complete the garniture of the head, to make all perfect, to leave no point of escape for the susceptible admirer of modern beauty, some dorsal appendage was necessary of mornings as well as in the more fully bedizened period of evening society.
"Everything about the sweet Crinoline was wont to be green.

It is the sweetest and most innocent of colours; but, alas! a colour dangerous for the heart's ease of youthful beauty.

Hanging from the back of her head were to be seen moss and fennel, and various grasses--rye grass and timothy, trefoil and cinquefoil, vetches, and clover, and here and there young fern.

A story was told, but doubtless false, as it was traced to the mouth of Miss Manasseh, that once while Crinoline was reclining in a paddock at Richmond, having escaped with the young Macassar from the heat of a neighbouring drawing-room, a cow had attempted to feed from her head." 'Oh, Charley, a cow!' said Katie.
'Well, but you see I don't give it as true,' said Charley.
'I shall never get it done if Katie won't hold her tongue,' said Mrs.Woodward.
"But perhaps it was when at the seaside in September, at Broadstairs, Herne Bay, or Dover, Crinoline and her mamma invigorated themselves with the sea-breezes of the ocean--perhaps it was there that she was enabled to assume that covering for her head in which her soul most delighted.