Poses Sunday Interlude In Life of Famed Beast the lion rampant outside the Benj kong and Shanghai Bank bad a new experience on Sunday.
After growling at constituents with his majestic burnished, his handsome proportions struck @ Yesponsive chord in the soul of a Chinese artist who decided to uive him even greater fame by modelling him, Not without objection legitimate to his pride did the noble beast condescend to pose for the sculptor, "Gre "his isa he growled. bank not' an art school." fea, verily," quoth the artist," but even the lion' can be induced to down with the lamb and, as our great Sages have wisely observed, art flourishes under the beneficent patronage of commerce and industry; shut up.
And without more ado, the Chinese sat down on the steps of the building, produced a cigarette box full of modelling clay and on a small wooden base ko began to produce the likeness of the Hon.
Delicately, the heap of grey, clay began to assume the form of the lion, and clever fingers worked on shaping the tawny mane while chopsticks helped to produce the eyes and give the rugged visage of the animal.
Several Chinese paused to watch him at his work. Two small boys gazed in wonderment. A Chinese policeman halted on his beat to offer. a few suggestions based on his yearning artistic inclinations. Foreigners walla ing along the Bund also stopped to admire the artist's technique.
Three hours later the artist was still at work giving the final touches necessary to reproduce faithfully the ion rampant from his heap of clay in the discarded cigarette box.
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