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woods in there, for he come to-morrow or next year 

 and see.' So I tell him true, and he look sour. I seen 

 no big heads like you kill on Gander and Shoe 

 Hill." 



I think that the above shows that the rough 

 untutored savage has often a much cleaner sense of 

 honesty than the company promoter. 



The next letter is a very curious one from a 

 Russian girl, and the reader must judge for himself 

 how much of it is genuine insouciance and how 

 much commercial instinct. Under any circum- 

 stances it is an interesting example of human 

 psychology — 



" June SOth, Jagoryj 

 " {Hearopor), 

 " Martinishky, 

 " Gouvemement de Kowno, 

 " Russie. 



" Dear Mr. Millais, 



" Lettres from unknown people are often not 

 read, trown away, but as mine comes from so far from 

 Russia, perhaps you will read it to the end ? I was 

 so struck by the sketches in Pearson's made by you 

 (illustrating an article called a ' Breath from the 

 Veldt '), and spesially by the way in which they 

 were made, that involontarily I began to write to 

 you. There is one sketch which appealled to me 

 spesially, ' Wildebeest cantering out to feed,' you 

 feel the poetry of it — if you are an artist you will 

 understand what I mean by the poetry — ^the effect 

 of the big thing, the animals and all seen and 

 understood without colours. I hke the ' klipbucks 



