As regards myself I should, perhaps, make no comment, I am possibly
a prejudiced party. All I will say, therefore, is that if I in any
way resemble Begglely's photograph of me, then the critics are
fully justified in everything they have at any time, anywhere, said
of me--and more. Nor, I maintain--though I make no pretence of
possessing the figure of Apollo--is one of my legs twice the length
of the other, and neither does it curve upwards. This I can prove.
Begglely allowed that an accident had occurred to the negative
during the process of development, but this explanation does not
appear on the picture, and I cannot help feeling that an injustice
has been done me.
His perspective seemed to be governed by no law either human or
divine. I have seen a photograph of his uncle and a windmill,
judging from which I defy any unprejudiced person to say which is
the bigger, the uncle or the mill.
On one occasion he created quite a scandal in the parish by
exhibiting a well-known and eminently respectable maiden lady
nursing a young man on her knee. The gentleman's face was
indistinct, and he was dressed in a costume which, upon a man of
his size--one would have estimated him as rising 6 ft.
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