QUID PRO QUO.

Campbell relates:--"Turner, the painter, is a ready wit. Once at a

dinner where several artists, amateurs, and literary men were convened,

a poet, by way of being facetious, proposed as a toast the health of the

_painters_ and _glaziers_ of Great Britain. The toast was drunk; and

Turner, after returning thanks for it, proposed the health of the

British _paper-stainers_."

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