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Show Presence of Mind. (Shicago Chronicle.) On one" occasion a great public din- ner was given to Isaac Hull by the town -of Boston, ami 'he was asked to sil for his picture to Gilbert Stuart, the celebrated arti3t. who was a great Iraggart. When Hull visited his studio .Stuart took great delight in entertaining entertain-ing him with anecdotes of his English success, stories of the marquis of this I and the baroness of that, which showed how elegant was the society to which: I he had been accustomed, ("nfortunate-'y, ("nfortunate-'y, in the midst of this grandeur, Mrs. Mary Stuart, who did not know that there was a sitter, came in with apron en and her head tied up with some handkerchiefs, from the kitchen, and cried out: "Do you mean to have that leg of mutton boiled or roasted?" To which Stuart replied, with great presence pres-ence of mind, "Ask your mistress." |