The things we do!

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M'Collop devised a counter picture, wherein the barber-surgeon of King
Edward the Confessor was drawn, operating upon the beard of that monarch.
To which piece of satire Clive gallantly replied by a design,
representing Sawney Bean M'Collop, chief of the clan of that name,
descending from his mountains into Edinburgh, and his astonishment at
beholding a pair of breeches for the first time. These playful jokes
passed constantly amongst the young men of Gandish's studio. There was no
one there who was not caricatured in one way or another. He whose eyes
looked not very straight was depicted with a most awful squint. The youth
whom nature had endowed with somewhat lengthy nose was drawn by the
caricaturists with a prodigious proboscis. Little Bobby Moss, the young
Hebrew artist from Wardour Street, was delineated with three hats and an
old-clothes bag. Nor were poor J. J.'s round shoulders spared, until
Clive indignantly remonstrated at the hideous hunchback pictures which
the boys made of his friend, and vowed it was a shame to make jokes at
such a deformity.


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