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Show GREAT PAINTER THRIFTY MAN- ven to Generous Patron Turner Begrudged Be-grudged the Opening cf tiotile or Wine. Apropos of Turner's meanness, it is tola how Gillot, a patron oi Turner, called upon ine great painter ro purchase pur-chase his voi and said: "Now, Turner, 1 have bought many a picture of yours, and have spent thousands of pounds, but you have nver even offered a glass of wine, i ei I am told that you have some of the best grand old stuff you buy down the Thames when you go to your favorite fa-vorite haunts among the smugglers and others. Out with it! I will not leave your studio until I have tasted it." "Turner reluctantly produced a bottle bot-tle of old port and grumbling all the time, poured out a glass. The" connoisseur con-noisseur drank it. "Well, I never! That's the finest glass of wine 1 have ever tasted. "You mean old fraud! I'll be equal to you next time." Next year Giilot came around again. After business, wine was suggested, and, after some difficulty, Turner had to pioduce his port. Gillot drank it, and tneu spluttered: "Oh, good gracious! Am I poisoned? pois-oned? What's this? Some of you.- infernal in-fernal bitumen, or what?" "No; that's all right. It must be for you praised my port last year, and that is oul of tho very sama bottle." |