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Show IT WAS BITTEN OFF.-The anecdote of the inquisitive man, who asked another how he lost his leg, and, after having promised to ask no further questions, was told that it was "bit off," has been variously told, and often wrongly attributed. The incident is properly told in Scribner in a paper on Copley, the American artist of the last century. The incident occurred between Brook Watson, afterward lord mayor of London, and his servant, who in pulling off his boot, was warned in vain that if he was not careful he would bring the leg off too-which, much to his astonishment, he did. As a matter of fact, Watson's leg had been bitten off by a shark in the harbor of Havana; an event commemorated in a famous picture by Comley, which is engraved with the above-mentioned paper. |