Naughty Woman Again.

Manawatu Herald, 16 December 1893, Page 2

Naughty Woman Again.

• . The woman competitor, it appears has invaded the province of the street artist. A favourite, because profitable, pitch for men artists was (the Daily TeUgraph says) a strip of pavement in Gray's Inn road, beside the old workhouse. The artists liked it because it gave them the chauce of making friends with the oftk-iiii.-», in view of poesible contingencies.. On Tuesday morning two of them arrived to take possession of the p-ivemenfc, and stood thnnders!ruck on tindiug that it was already occupied by a young lady, who had ornamented it with the usual represent alien of trees and waterfalls, shipj ou the sea, salmon on plates - dear lo the eye of street decoratars, and intimated beneath in a large, bo'nl, hand-writing — * • 'J his is the wmk of a woman of really no imI pjtt.ince.' The two male artists l'joknl at the pictures, and one said to tho oiher, " Well, I'm blest, it's c-mie to this at last, 'as it ?" " Yhs,'" said the other, "it 'aye. They're driving us out of the Academy, and now they're driving us off the street as well. We'll have tojine the unemployed." "Or go to ihe work'us," added the first. And they went away, leaving the laclv to collect the conoers.