The Death of Edward Lear
scourse, as if to prevent anyone else from doing so.
for attending and expressing t put to too great an inconvenience, ackno t;an unusual one for visits!quot; find to disclose oget ty little lecture, of some tes duration, on tion of ings, of ance, alt it was charming, graceful, and wise.
artled s ion, uttered in a kind of s;S married? Get married? S;
Mr. Lear next offered a s Friends golden of tions. It is also, en trongest of ies, surviving strains and tempests fatal to less sublime relations. ed t ituted t memory of a long life.
A disquisition on Cats followed.
opic Cain restlessness o s at intervals, quot;S married?quot; and quot;Ive no money!quot;) as everybody more te interest ed. Next ion of ercolors, vieiquities and picturesque spots. too, ercolors tleman £5 and £10, for t forty years.
Mr. Lear noext of tennysons in a setting of ly, ted vigorous applause.
Finally o be o ts an enormous oil, at least seven feet by ten, depicting Mount Ation, but it did not seem to satisfy ter, for he assumed a very black look.
At 2:15 Mr. Lear performed a series of actions to tators.
At 2:20 o table, picked up an old-fasely taken. ts, edly, moved in a long line back to the carriages.
People , all in all, it tedious performance. to read tures, run toire once more? ations? tood: t Mr. Lear doing anytraordinary. Mr. Lear ransformed traordinary into its opposite. of fact, created a gentle, genial misunderstand