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deed, they called me the * gentleman in black." Iiven to this day the ink I use i3 a Japancse fluid of the deepest and darkest dye, such as music is copied with. My old skill in modelling stood me in good stead at the Princess’s Theatre. 1 used to model Illil\‘lis‘ fm’ the pantomime and to paint

“props.’ Asalinguist 1 translated French farces, as a caligr aplnst used to copy out parts , from my uul\ mathematical tlammo L was put on to keep the accounts, stock books, wardrobe—you know thing—two pcms seventeen dancers' dresses, three PaLTs of r unks, &c., and all shilltnes a weel ! \kt I was never so happy in my lifc ;

cvery week Talways had 250 Teft to lay out during the week ensuing in tea and toast at. Mr. Porter’s coffee-shop in [Long-acre, Porter was a greasy man who was the ])mud possessor of astill greasier library, There was streaky bacon and shilling butter on

CVCTy page. 3ul' as | ate my toast and swallowed my tea, I devoured that lib]':n‘_\'. I read ZFraser, Hull i Theodore

Hook's time, Z%e Quarterlyv, FBlackeond's dlaoazine from the L()l]lll]LIlLLInult, and | not what. 1 was unconsciously fitting mysclf for a leader-writer. 1 still kept up my pamting, though, and well remember doing hifty illustrations of Jenny Lind at Is. od. cach for aman in the Burlington

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“ At last I threw up the engagement at hftcen shillings a weck, and vears after- wards | mmunbu the old manager at the Princess’s saying to a friend, [.ook at hin. I brought him out at fiftecen bob a week, and now he is riding in his carriage !

Soon after this, yvoung Sala got connected with the publlshmw hrm of Ackerman & Co., doing all kinds of humorous pPro- (luulom for thun mainly ctching on stone. Adolphe *\d\umm a man of great prin- ciple—insisted, howcever, that the young cngraver should learn the whole process of cngraving on copper and steel ; and, having

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saved a hittle moncey, and being helped by M. \leumcm he al)plultmul himselt to Henrv Alkin for threc vears, He also illustrated many hooks—some written by Albert Smith, and others for Mr, Edward Lloyd, who founded Z/lovi’s News. Ny Sala characterises these last pictures as being very chastly. One in particular was for a small novel called *1eads of (he I'lczullc\\' " but the picture block was not “strong U enough for lovd. He sent it back widh thg. note : * More blocd, and eves Jarger ! So skilful did the artist bu,unu, m his new calling, thdt,dt the age of twenty-four, he and ,\Il Alkin werce commissioned to c:xccute A1 HCNSC Palo-

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