DOUBLES OF DEAD CELEBRITIES.
Samuel Buth-r, author of collection of whose "&"&2&*sS®M*^
W' «rs» Int-ely published, in his travels often wet persons wh<i.«v iippeaninco remindcl '$$:<. jjm of dead celebritie*. "Gobg clown S- once towards Italy I «ny a young man in fT; ||,< e train whom I rccognifed, only he if to have got younger. Ho »t:is 'c with a friend, and his face wae m cun5 > tintiid play. I>ut for •* ,ome '' ttle tv,9 * '•■'' puwlod in vain to recoil ;':t wnvre it irae that I had wn him h.'.uvc. All i:f «. ••'■''•■ Midden I remembered he was K-l.£ Inn- ■ /••« I. of France. I had hitherto cnotttfht ■ '"the face of this* king impojvible. but *h?n 1 saw I , * in * umh-rstood it. Uitt ■ tmv: contemporary, Ilonry VIII., k^ns "■sfrKMrani in Oxford rtrcet. Faistaff ' i 1 drove one <>i the Ht. Cothyrd for ** '■■■' nnnv •■ vtars, and only retired when tho ;! -liVav «"'•• «!-->fned. Titian once made • v; Jr-!™«'a*i»ir t'f at Vicenza, and -»t ones. At Modeua I had u.y hair cat by a young man whom I wsrceiv"lT to be'Haffiiclle- Tlw modd ..aC r fl him for hi* cdvbratcd Madonnas » firM t lv in a c-onfectionery establishment ,-.t, Montreal Sli« has a little motherly :>--m- ------; ;, on tho U-ft *■** of llOr ,lOfie ,bat 1S ,H ?" r*j ine at tirst. but on .'xomination en« is ;' 2Sfj,,dtHo nimple too, but Raflaelle •: ; - left it out—as he would.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12013, 14 October 1904, Page 4
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