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in page before him, he replied that he could not afford to indulge in an artide of expensive lety." He, however, made a proposition, which was to the effect that he would have bis portrait painted if Reynolds would wait until be was called to the English Bar, when the fee earned would be handed over in payment, and, failing any fses, the money would be paid in five years. Sir Joshua readily agro od to these conditions, and Boswell's portrait is now in the National Gallery. It has been said that Reynolds WAS A trifle avaricious, but we have it on the authority of Mr. H. B. Wheatley's Historical Port raits that the artist counted it a pleasure to paint for nothing those friends of genius whom he loved. Somsono asked Sterne for a picture of himself. The author of the Sentimental Journey replied that he could not mention the matter to Sir Joshua Heynolds, for the reason that the artist had already painted a portrait of him, and when I went to pay him," LARGE SELECTION OF SMART AND STYLISH RAIN COATS, saya Sterne, "he desired me to accept as a tribute that his heart wished to pay to my manners are at least equal to his pencil.” genius. That man's way of thinking and

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The old artists had their little jokes, aud none of them entered into a piece of drollery more heartily than Reynolds. Students of Johnsonian literalars are not likely to forget the account of that convivial evening when the pro position was seriously put forward whether the Doctor could ever have been a baby. Suddenly THREE CASTLES CIGARETTES Reynolds became inspired with an idea. The Doctor a baby!" he cried, there can be no doubt about it, and I will show you what he looked like some day." Sir Joshua kept his CAPSTAN TOBACCO word. He painted the infant Jelanson, and the barly lexicographer himself brooking forth into boisterous goffaws. This picture is now said

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