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Show "PREHISTORIC"' OLD PAINTING A FRAUD Boatman 'Was the Artist "Who Executed Work Supposed to Be oC Qvnnt Antiquity. Special Cable to' Tho Tribune LONDON, .Dec. li. Memories of Bret, llartc's verses on the sclontlnc society "upon the .Stanislow," and of Mr. PIcl:- wick's famous discovery of the inscription inscrip-tion on the atone, aro' recalled in rending a theory published by the Cambria Daily Loader of the paintings recently found on the walls of Danon's IJole, a cave near tho Mumbles, Swunsea. Tho paintings, paint-ings, which consist of horizontal bands of vivid rod, havo been described aa of prehistoric origin. The Cambria Dully Leader says that eighteen years ago a. Mumbles boatman, Johnny Halo, wont Into tho cavo to rub some reddiuh paint out of a bruuh bo had Clckcd up among the wreckage of the arqua Althcu, which had been driven ashore. "It would apponr," oays tho Journal, "that Johnny did the rubbing out. or what might bn moru correctly dcHcribed as the 'rubbing in,' remarkably well. Bala was about 7 feet 7 Inches In height and thu painting corresponds with tho position In which lus area would have boen." |