The pictorial press : its origin and progress / by Mason Jackson.

  • Mason Jackson
Date:
1885
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Credit: The pictorial press : its origin and progress / by Mason Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the other passengers. Presently our artist took his re- venge. As they were passing a to^vn with a ruined castle on a hill he said, with much fervour, addressing the French- man,- 'How beautifully that old tower is relieved by the dark foliage! ^ What a splendid contrast is the cold grey of the hill behind! How harmoniously the distance is blended with the middle distance, and the middle distance with the foreground, by means of the bridge across the river!' The Frenchman stared, stammered, and confessed he did not comprehend. ' What!' said our artist; ' you travel and do not under- stand English!' Ver leetle.' 'Do you speak Scotch ?' 'JSTon, m'sieur.' 'JS'or Irish!' 'Non.' 'Welsh?' 'IN'on.' 'Suffolk?' ' Non, non, m'sieur.' With an exact imitation of the Frenchman's contemptu- ous shrug our friend turned to their fellow-travellers amid the loud laughter of those Avho understood the joke. When the special artist exercises his vocation at home, though he lacks the excitement of danger, he meets with many amusing incidents. An artist who attended the meeting of the British Association at Lincoln many years ago desired to sketch the house which was reputed to have been the residence of John o' Gfaunt, and asked the waiter at the hotel if he could direct him to it. * Johnny Gfaunt, Sir ?' said the waiter, evidently j)uzzled ; ' I don't know him. Sir, but I'll inquire.' In a few minutes he returned and said he had inquired at the bar, but that no such joerson as Johnny Gaunt resided thereabouts. Another, who was something of a wag, was once making a sketch in the heart of St. Griles's;
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