"Why, he is the Englishman," was the reply.

"The Englishman!--that the representative of a great country!" was the general exclamation.

But it was the Englishman all over.

He was sent there, not to exhibit himself, but to show "the best beast," and he did it, carrying away the first prize.

Yet he would have been nothing the worse for the flower in his buttonhole.
To remedy this admitted defect of grace and want of artistic taste in the English people, a school has sprung up amongst us for the more general diffusion of fine art.