By some stordinary mistake on the part of some wery hemenent taker of
Poortraits, I was last week requested for to go to him and set for my
Picter.
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He told me in his letter that his reason for wanting me to set to him
was, becoz he wanted to have the Picters of all the Members of the
Copperation, and of course they wood not be complete without mine, for
tho of course he knew that I was not a real Common Counseller, still, he
thort that I had left sitch a mark among them by my ten years constant
service and unwarying atention to em, that the hole matter woud be
wanting in completeness if my Picter was omitted, even if it was only as
"Mr. ROBERT the City Waiter" a leading off the presession or a bringing
up the Reer! I remembers werry well when the other City Picter was
printed, about a year ago, when the LORD MARE'S three Footmen, all in
their werry hansumest uniforms, was placed exactly in the front, and all
being fine hansum fellers, as they undowtedly is, they were thort to
have taken the shine out of the hole Picter, but that was in course
quite a diffrent thing, and this new one is to be quite werry diffrent
from that one, and carried out in quite another style altogether, and
will, I shoud think, atract such uniwersal admiration as will quite cut
out the Picter Gallery as was shown at Gildall last summer.
Sum few of the werry hansumest of the hole Court as has bin and got
taken already, has bin and stuck theirselves up in the Reading Room, and
werry proud they is of their apperience, and BROWN and Me has got sum of
the Atendents to let us go in before the Members comes, and see em
privately. BROWN says as how as he's quite sure as there must be sum
mistake about me, becoz as he carn't at all see how I shoud fit in with
the rest. But there's werry little dout in my mind that it's all a case
of gelosy with BROWN, who woud werry much like to have sitch a chance.
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I had my chance of going yesterday, and werry kind the Gennelman wos who
took me, and he took me three times, to make sure of me. He said as I
was a werry good Setter, and that everybody woud know who I was by my
likenesses in _Punch_, and lots of peeple woud like to git my Picter, as
it was a werry good likeness.