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MR SALA S MONKEY, Firom a Photo. by Ellivtt & i
cows and horses, deer, a rhinoceros. The pig Sala believes in pigs
plush, are china canarics, and even predominates. Mr. tfor luck, and pur- chases one wher- ever he goes. The two places of honour, however, arc given up toa large-sized cat and monkey. [et 1t be told in a whis- per that Mrs. Sala confesses to the cat as her guard- 1an angel, because it 13 most like a woman ; whilst Mr. Sala lcans towards the mon- key, because 1t most rescmbles a ——. A grand- father's clock 1is icking i the corner. Here hangs a silver violin. It was made 1n Cawnpore, and was the property of some Rajah of India. “I bought it in Lecicester-square,’” said 1its owner. It was marked £33 I went inside and offered a ten-pound note for it.”
From a Photo, by]
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‘you're Mr.
exclaimed Satlor,
the proprictor, you are ! Well, look
here, vou can have it for £13)
U Right,' 1 osaid.
“(\}'(g‘i:']’g to pay now?"'
“ Then, it's been years," "
There are many fine engravings about, and just by the dining-room door 1s a stick oiven to Mr. Sala by Lord Wolscley, after his great campaign in South Africa.
The dining-room overlooks Victoria- street. It 15 a little room, suggestive of u)ml(nt (ble meals and excellent company-.
AL SIS personal dining-table is not very b]n—()m and a half feet square. He always uses 1t seldom sitting at the larger board, and sits in an casy- chair. The bronzes on the mantelboard are as exquisite as the china and Hanoverian ware sct out on the bookshelves, and it would be difficult to hnd more works of art crowded into so small a space. Examples of Sir John Gil- bert, Montalba, Copley Fielding, A. Van- dy Ll\, Gerard Dhow, Gustave Doré— represented by a grand scenc in the High-
he asked.
take it out of the shop; for ]nnomo here for twenty-five
THIS DINING-ROODM,
LUt o Fry.
lands—the original sketch i oi1ls for Luke ildes' ** Betty,” and a very clever paint- ing by Miss Genevieve Ward, the actress, of a monk enjoying an after-dinuer pipc.