If you know the "Rose and the Ring" by heart, as you should, it will give you quite a shock.

It is the image of the Doorknocker into which the Fairy Blackstick changed the wicked porter Gruffanuff! It is indeed! You know, if all these toys should come to life some moonlit night they would make quite a formidable array! Imagine the pirates and the kicking mules and the cubist burglars all running wild together! And there is something uncanny about them and their expressions that makes one suspect that such an event is more than half likely.
Even the advertisements for such a shop could not be commonplace.

The artist in charge proclaims that: "Pirates are his specialty, and that he will gladly furnish estimates on anything from the services of a Pirate Crew to a Treasure Island or a Pirate Ship." On Washington Square is another sort of workshop,--a place where jewelry is made by hand.

The girl who does this work draws her own designs and executes them, and the results are infinitely quainter and more beautiful than the things to be bought at jewelry shops.

She buys her copper and silver and the little gold she uses in bulk; her jewels--semi-precious stones for the most part--come from all over the world.