Ferocious Dealer. Now, if any man will tell me that that’s a copy, I’ll—I’ll knock him down!—What’s your candid opinion?
THE COMMERCIAL SIDE.
Painter. You don’t mean to say you want me to sign it, when I tell you I did not paint it? And a beastly copy it is, too!
Picture-Dealer. Vy not, goot sir? vy not? Tut! tut! tut! I only vish you artis’s vos men of bis’ness!
GADDY’S ACADEMY PICTURE ON VIEW.
Art Critic. You see you’ve got the duke seated and the duchess standing up. Now couldn’t you make the duchess sitting down and the duke standing up?
[But Gaddy fears the council will not put off the exhibition for a couple of months to enable him to take advantage of his friend’s valuable suggestion.
