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Show A HUMOROUS TAXIDERMIST. The Death of Cock Robin. Beneath the shadows of the ruined castle at Brambcr, England, there Is a novel and Interesting museum, well worthy the attention of all who find themselves in that pretties of South Down villages. The exhibits displayed therein are principally examples .if the art of the taxidermist, but the subjects are treated In such a humorous hu-morous manner as to render the museum unique in England From a child's point of view It Is a veritable Wonderland, reminiscent pf the strange sights seen by Alice when she made her Journey Into that delectable country. It Is doi, however, only the Juvenile who Is captivated with the exhibition; the adult Is none theless amused nnd agreeably surprised at tho wonderful inguoDlty there displayed. dis-played. The Idea of thus combining the art of the tajcldermlst with that of the humorist was generated In the brain of the vefernn proprietor, Mr. W. Potter. Pot-ter. In 1 SCl Mr. Potter set to work to construct his first piece, illustrating illus-trating the "Death and Burial of Cock Robin." The work was done in Mr. Potter's spare time, and was not completed com-pleted until seven years had elapsed. The nursery rjhme Is too well known to repeat here. The whole of the incidents in-cidents In the story are graphically portrayed, and, as evidencing the patience pa-tience and perservence exorcised by Mr. Potter, it may be stated that no fewer than one hundred specimens of British birds are Included In the set-tin set-tin In uddltion to the birds which figures in the story there are the cuckoo, nightingale, goldfinch, hawk-finch, hawk-finch, bramble-flnrh. whyneek, etc. Considerable Ingenuity is dlsplayod in the arrangement of the "fish with his dish" the "fly with his little ye" the owl, the bull rendered In miniature, the rook and the mourning birds all a-tdgblng and a sobbing. From "How a Hiimotist Stuffs Animals" In the Strand. |