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Show Joke Was on Whistler. Whistler, the great American artist, was dining with Sir Henry Irving. Two of his earliest plcture were on the wall and Ire remarked jokingly at the beginning of dinner that he could study them from the point of view of his riper years. Though he spoke with a smile, he did Indeed look at tliiim a great deal. Suddenly he exclaimed. ex-claimed. "Irving, look what you've done!" "What?" asked Irving. "Why, these pictures, both of them, are upside up-side down, and you've never noticed It even." "WeH," said Irving, "surely I can be excused. It's taken the man who painted them over an hour to discover dis-cover It." I |