CONSTABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2732, 18 July 1906, Page 78

CONSTABLE.

-^on^ Ror.lloctions by W. P. Fnth,

Filius: "Did you o\py ?co Cop^taM"'"

P.at-cr: "Several tim-r 5 He rlipod v, ith' ii' in '35. when I was at Sn^s's School Si« = ctidn't want me at tLo dinnrr. bii' T wi>- a parlour boa i dor a« well a.s a pupil, ?vt] in-f-Ut<"\ r.i it, and c'in^ I did I never or^ned my n">-outh tlii- whole iinip. Co' ic t. o .h'o didn't snv rnu '!■ oth(' - Hf> was ahvavs nr<ikin<. r litHo jihi^mhh of his breadcrumbs wtr hi- knife I watchc! him

Films "Thai wa-^ il<e Jinwor El(y v,aj at " I'rJp : "f h<M mini .ild man h" va= Pnor F.t(\ ' Wh^r I v ■!«. f'< <:♦-.! an .» ' - c 'to in '45 I woit* ri, <,m' lijio-i liipi a= iho cust<rr wa.s in h,- ■ -li-. , .:i Ruckinchain street Ftrard TT T <> <=r"i,icd \oiv ill .in 1 I-r-ant on the (a'lk- th" \< hole tim-r T c aiJ something' about i f .■ri '1 .ill 'ie «aid was. "Well T mi'sii'f cTinp'.im ilv !i r e has l-cen a ,'onsr cirnpirv'-. holiday '"

Filius: "Hadn't Co^fible gieat difficulty in scl'ing 1 hi-? ircturci?"

Pater Cwitli om;)ha«i«0 : "He nover litifc onoc sold a pi?lu*-o f%v- more than £100. After he dined with v-- S'ass took me with him *o his painting room in Chariot fo street. Fit/roy ~qu:iro He v.a^ Mmplv Mirioundf'l with un= lid pirlnroa. T h^n'rl h.m talkincr to S is- nfao'jt «omr> pictuie ™ flc'lm«f lc'lm« S;i- Rorrrl P/>. ! had j n ~ t b ught from the artist for £'03 Tl was a 'Fio-tv TUt.' T think: '-opiorhino about i fir^t I I 'inw. I ho .rd CoiimalVp 'ay 'fA2Q f'M- a picture of CV,l'in<.V And look al ;il' thc^o iiptM thin?* of inii'o.' If he- hadn't htvl a wif« with niflncv hr> nniM hmr> sta'vod: ho c?rtiimlv couldn't ha\o li\od by '■]« pain'riu Filiu~ : "I .supp 1"^1 "^ hj« umk novoi- vcr.llv ramo :nto vogue iiiit ll aflrr tbo Pan« I"vhibtinn of 185S \ihen the Fiench arti«is disci oi^red him"

Paler (shakes his lie^cfl : "It was n lore time after his death. 77e died in '37 I know I'd the wroatc-r difficulty, al'O'it '60 in po^-nanirvr Hv |l i to eriv •CI'Vl for a pifi-nv of hi* from a firm in Bond stroo>r. And whon Ilurh'e collect ion was sold that same picture fetched 60002.= Tho man who boucrht it ha« got one- of those big houses in Pplace Gardens Tt'<- tbei© now."-— Walter Frith, in the Ornhill.