Grateful Drover

A Happy New Year to all (both?) our readers!


Nice seasonal story in #1, from 17th July 1858 in the Cambridge Independent.


#2 shows - possibly - the painting mentioned.  It's the only Smythe we could find that showed all the ingredients mentioned in the paper without any extras...but there are probably many more candidates that don't happen to have been for sale recently.


 #3 shows the Ipswich-born artist Edward Robert Smythe (1810-1890) looking exactly as an artist is supposed to look!