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Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 41

DOUBLES.

Samuel Butler, author of " Erewhon,"' a oollection of whose "Essays on Life, etc., ' was lately published, in his travels often met persons whose appearance reminded I

him of dead celebrities. " Going down once towards Italy I saw a young man in the train whom I recognised, only he seemed to have got younger. He was with a friend, and his face was in continual play, but for some little time I puzzled in vain to recollect where it was that I had

seen him before. All of a sudden I remembered he was King Francis I of France. I had hitherto thought the face of this king impossible, but when I saw it in play I understood it. His great contemporary. Henry VIII, keeps a restaurant in Oxford street. Falstaff drove one of the St.

Gothard diligences for many years, and only retired when the railway was opened. Titian once made me a pair of boots at Vicenza, and not very good ones. At Modena I had my hair cut by a young man whom I perceived to be Raffaelle. The model who sat to him for his celebrated

Madonnas is first lady in a confectionary establishment at Montreal. She has a little motherly pimple on the left side of her nose that is misleading at first, but on examination she is readily recognised. Probably Raffaelle's model had the pimple too, but Raffaelle left it out — as he would."