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Show Tested Their Friendship. Constable, the eminent British painter, paint-er, once Bat on the hanging committee ot the Royal Academy when a small landscape was brought up for Judgment Judg-ment and pronounced "devilish bad" by everybody but himself. He rose and made a short and startling speech. "That picture was painted by me. I had a notion that some of you didn't like my work, and this is a pretty convincing proof. I am very much obliged to you." When his colleagues recovered from their stupefaction the head carpenter was bidden to bring 1 aclt the picture. But Constable would not have It. |