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Show NOTHING ELSE BUT. An artist of some repute had an old soldier named Bill for his model and general servant. s One day a lady called. The artist was absent, and she was received in the studio by Bill. "Dear mcl" she exclaimed, as she glanced first at an unfinished picture and then at Bill. "I declare I This picture is extremely like you I" "It is me, madam," answered Bill decisively. "I sits for .all his old men. That's what he is specially good at." "You must be a very useful person to your master," she observed. "And you think he is especially good at old men?" "Yes," replied Bill. "But why not? 'Cos he's got nothink to dol I orders his frames, washes his brushes, sets his palettes, mixes his colors, and then sits here for him to look at. He's got nothink else to do but to Paster on the paint!" |