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Show A QUEER PRESENT. How tb Model or a Kamoufl Pmlntlnj j Wild Olitnlncd. The btory of Sir lid win Landseer's model for lue fiimous pieture of the "Desert" is amusingly told in "Koeords of an All-Uiiind .M;mi." Uie morning" before Sir Edwin was out of bed there ' eume a hniteU at bin dor. Sir Edwin, rather burpried, euiled out: "Who'b , there?" "1 'lease, bir, hare you ordered a! lion?" w as the reply, i "Ordered a what?" "A lion. sir. 'cos there's one come to the baelt door but he doesn't know whether you ordered him or not." "Oh, "very well, take him in." Raid the artist, who pitehfi.rked on hiselothes and hurried dw n greatly puzzled as to what he should lind. A splendiil Hon at the znoloieul pur-dens pur-dens hud just died, and at the request of some friend was sent to Sir Edwin. The prisly uionareh stretelu-il at lenpth, as he was upon the atones of the court. furnisheil tiieubjc-et of band-seer's band-seer's famous picture of the "Desert," j exhibited in isi'j. |