Sano di Pietro shows us a heartless practical joke played by these two
very naughty saints, both medical men, who should be uncanonised
immediately. It seems they laid their heads together and for some
reason, best known to themselves, resolved to cut a leg off a dead negro
and put it on to a white man. In the one compartment they are seen in
high glee cutting the negro’s leg off. In the next they have gone to the
white man who is in bed, obviously asleep, and are substituting the black
leg for his own. Then, no doubt, they will stand behind the door and see
what he does when he wakes. They must be saints because they have
glories on, but it looks as though a glory is not much more to be relied
on than a gig as a test of respectability. [1889.]