Show alt evening at craidon ono knoot of the nights there on thia his 00 oo casion encouraged possibly by the presence ol of poor james anderson An denon an ingenious simple ample man and our nearest gentleman neighbor jeffrey in in the drawing room was vaa cleverer brighter anil and more than I 1 ever saw blat elsewhere we ave had got to talk ol of public pallia speaking of 0 which jeffrey had bad plan plaats ly to say an auml d found anderson And ernon and all of us ready enough to hear ca be fare oro long he fell into mimicking oking ot of public speakers men unknown perhaps imaginary generic generia specimens and did dd it with such ft a felicity flowing readiness ingenuity and perfect ioa of imitation as I 1 never saw HW equaled ein lod and had not given him credit for before draeving room bright blight shining ehl ning hidden bidden ia the lonely wilder call how bow beautiful it looked to us became suddenly as it were a temple of the muses maies the iho little man strutted atrat ted about fall of gio witti with attitudes with gesticulations still more with winged words worda often broken winged amid our admiring laughter l gave us na the windy specimen the ponderous stapie atio airy ay iy ditto vari oun mons as the llie talk chiefly his hia own spontaneously suggested of which there was wa a little preparatory interstice between each two and aad the tha mimicry laimi ory was waa so BO complete comp letu you would havo have said bald not his hia mind only but hta his very body became the meno his bia cailo with the expression and late his little figure scooting to grow gigan tic if i tho the personage pers required it at length ho he gave gava us ns the tub costive specimen which hail a 0 ni eining and no utterance for it bat want ant about oleia baring stumbling as aa on oil a path of lease lobao boulders said endedina fetal amid peals of the ahe LiAu Hant laughter from us DS all this of ct the little sprite standing there in altal t ital collapse with tho tha brightest ol of oyes eyes sternly gazing gazia into utter nothingness and dumbness was wai one of tho most tickling and genially ludi orona ahinga I 1 ever saw and it prettily winded up oar lit loarina I 1 often thought of it afterwards and of what a part mita ferl plays playa among human gifts lu in its lowest phase no talent cau can be lower for even the ra pa patina and monkeys leavo it but in its ita gatins tatins hi ghast where it gives yon domicile in the spiritual world of a shakes care or a goetha there aro are only some dome low few that are higher no clever man 1 I Bup poBe la is originally wit honl it dickens BB as bestial faculty faoul tj I 1 often off iny is that of it a first rate play actor tied hail he been born twenty or forty years roars sooner wo to should most probably have hava had a adoc soc ond and and greater matthews incledon In olodon clodon or the like end ed no writing dickens Carly Oar lylo loo 8 11 |