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Show Hard to Account fcr Whims of Collectors When Whistlei was hard pressed foi money he took many of his etchings to the pawnbroker to obtain the wherewith to buy wine or rare Nan kin china, being a connoisseur ot the former and a collector ol the latter says the Market for Exchange. Itossetti devoted himself to old fur nlture and Japanese bric-a-brac with the passion of the true collector Un like Whistler, however, he knew how to hang on to money and drove a hard bargain. His house was a com billed museum and menagerie where raccoons, armadillos, salamanders and chameleons rummaged among rare munuserips, books, pictures, musical Instruments and furniture. The raccoon rac-coon was finally disposed of Hfler he had nibbled up some of the poel's manuscript, and a zebra which in the end proved dangerous met the same fate. There Is, however, no account ing for tastes; and the collector who specialized in nooses which had per formed their duty and to rhieh he at tached the names ot their tenants possessed. If not s more pK'iiliar. cer tainl.v a more morbid fast.; than Una setli. |