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    Comical People
    Comical People
    Comical People
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    Comical People

    By J. J. Grandville

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Comical People - J. J. Grandville

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Comical People, by Unknown

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Comical People

      Author: Unknown

      Illustrator: J. J. Grandville

      Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23352]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMICAL PEOPLE ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      University of Florida, The Internet Archive/Children's

      Library)

      COMICAL PEOPLE

      ILLUSTRATED

      WITH SIXTEEN PICTURES

      TAKEN FROM THE EMBROIDERED TAPESTRY CONTRIBUTED

      BY MARIA FUSINATA, OF BELLUNO,

      TO THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

      Drawn and Grouped from the Designs

      OF

      J. J. GRANDVILLE.

      LONDON:

      DAVID BOGUE, 86 FLEET STREET.

      MDCCCLII.

      LADY CHAFFINCH'S BALL

      CONTENTS.

      ILLUSTRATIONS.

      PREFACE.

      Among the contributions to the Great Exhibition which, from their position, did not acquire that popularity and praise which was due to them, were some fine specimens of embroidery from Vienna and various towns in Austria.

      Hung high up, beyond the glance of the casual observer, the elaborately-worked tapestry of Maria Fusinata attracted little attention. Those, however, who had the good fortune to notice it were always delighted with the excellent adaptation of the clever designs of Grandville, which the embroiderer had so faithfully rendered. The expression of the animals was most cleverly given, and the brightness of the colours added much to the effect of the compositions.

      Had Ploucquet added some of these designs to his Reynard the Fox, he would have increased the attraction of his show, deservedly popular as it was. Grandville, in these delineations of the faculties of animals, is quite equal to Kaulbach; and, though the French artist had not the honour of having his pictures copied in stuffed animals, they are thought to be quite worthy of being formed into a volume as a sequel to the Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg.

      LADY CHAFFINCH'S BALL.

      Heigh-ho! well, I am at home again at last. I wonder if I am the same innocent little Linnet that left these bowers only three months ago. What have I seen, where have I been?—or rather, What have I not seen, where have I not been? I have visited China and Peru, Nova Scotia, Trinidad, and Tuscany; I have been to Sweden, Egypt, Germany, and Mexico, and I have some recollections of Sardinia, and the United States. This is good travelling for three months, is it not?

      Let me think: how shall I tell you about it? I will begin at the beginning—

      Three months ago, as I was sitting in our summer-house, warbling one of my newest songs, our page Tom—Tom-tit we call him, he is such a funny little fellow—brought me a letter that had just been left by the postboy.

      I have it by heart.

      My dear little Songbird,—this is a name they gave to me from my infancy, for they say I could sing before I could speak,—My dear little Songbird, thus the letter began, "All the world is coming to London this spring to see the most wonderful of sights; try and persuade my dear sister, that kind Mamma of yours, to let you pay your long-promised visit to me. You must come in May, and you may stay with me as long as you can bear to be away from your delightful home. Let me know when I may expect you.

      "Your loving Aunt,

      Jenny Goldfinch.

      And I remember that the envelope was addressed, Lady Linnet, Gorse Bush, Somersetshire;

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