"Her real name is Jane Hoggson, and her mother does my washing, but I call her Fatima for short.

She can stop work for the day.

Get down off the platform, Jane Hoggson, and talk to this dear little girl.

You see, Mr.O'Day, now that the art of the country has gone to the devil and nobody wants my masterpieces, I have become an Eastern painter, fresh from Cairo, where I have lived for half a century--principally on Turkish paste and pressed figs.

My specialty at present--they are all over my walls, as you can see--is dancing-girls in silk tights or without them, just as the tobacco shops prefer.