A Tattooed Lord.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3243, 29 June 1889, Page 3

A Tattooed Lord.

; Much amusement has been caused; ; to newspaper readers by the repudiation from an Anglo-Chinese.. paper - "•f of an interview-with a celebrated . . tattooer resident in Hong Kong, who is said to make £I2OO a year by his ■ oalling, and ; who is bo careful of bis I necessary to announce by a placard outside his 1 ; shop that " I do not business when fuddled,"He boasts among liiVchents an English prince, . and,an ; English peer whom lie was a month -in tattooing, and on whose trunk and limbs he 'executed a series : of historial pictures at an expense of £IOO. There is great curiosity to idoutily the peer in - • question!' Hitherto it was supposed that .Lord Charles' Beresford was the only • member of'the British aristooracy at all; as elaborately tattooed' as that;-. and it cannot be .he, 'because the vast panorama with whioh.,,his. lordship.: is adorned was the work of his late Chinese servant,; Tom Fat," a : man who, possessing every other human virtuo except that of .keeping ■ accurate racing : accounts, .was huiled to the , law some, years ago by his sorrowing Lmaster, and.has long since disap■reared from the scene. Lord Charles great corporeal panorama -- / consists of a fox hunt, and inoliides representations of the aeld, the master, the huntman,. tvfo' whips, thirty couple of hounds, and a portion of tho fox. It is dqne serpent fashioni and it is necessary, to, .roll ; the patient over several times before i the full beauties of,the ■ work, can: be grasped. It has' always, beon regarded as the greatest piotorial triumph of thekind;nowon earth. ; But ' it has ■ yet to be compared with 'the LIOO.

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