. St. Nicholas [serial]. sof the unfortunate persons demanded that the A COMEDY IN WAX. [June, figures should be given up to them. The pro-prietors of the exhibition refused, and the emi-nent medical men declared it would not be safeto move the figures. They shook their headsand said they would not answer for the conse-quences. And when the relatives said, Butwhat business is it of yours ? they continuedto shake their heads, and replied, Oh, butyou should nt talk like that ! The relatives were furious. Off they rushedto the lawyers, who took down hundreds of celebrities. And everybody who read
. St. Nicholas [serial]. sof the unfortunate persons demanded that the A COMEDY IN WAX. [June, figures should be given up to them. The pro-prietors of the exhibition refused, and the emi-nent medical men declared it would not be safeto move the figures. They shook their headsand said they would not answer for the conse-quences. And when the relatives said, Butwhat business is it of yours ? they continuedto shake their heads, and replied, Oh, butyou should nt talk like that ! The relatives were furious. Off they rushedto the lawyers, who took down hundreds of celebrities. And everybody who read thesebills rushed off to the exhibition and paidshillings at the doors. And at all the railwaystations and all the ports, regiments of detec-tives were on the watch, so that the celebritiesshould not escape from the kingdom either byland or by water. The amounts of the rewards offered variedconsiderably : ^ioo each for Queen Elizabeth,Henry VIII, Richard I, Richard III, CharlesII, and Mary Queen of Scots; ,£60 each for. law-books, and for days they hunted throughthem for precedents. Then they wrote hundredsof tiresome lawyers letters, at six shillings andeightpence each, commencing, We are in-structed by our clients, So-and-so and So-and-so, to demand, etc. Then armies of bill-posters went all throughLondon and posted on the walls immense billsoffering rewards for the return of the missing 1 ARMIES OF BILL-POSTERS WENT ALL THROUGH LONDON AND POSTED ON THE WALLS IM-MENSE BILLS OFFERING REWARDS FOR THE RETURN OF THE MISSING CELEBRITIES. Cromwell and Loushkin ; ^50 each for GuyFawkes, Tom Thumb, and Mme. Sainte Ama-ranthe;^25 for Houqua, the Chinaman; ^15for the Executioner; and ^250 for Mme. Tus-saud. Aha ! said Mme. Tussaud to herself, whenshe ran her eye over this scale of rewards. The great British public knows my value. Itpays me proper respect. In these bills, which were printed in red, yel-low, and black, with the royal coat of arms atthe top, special announcement was mad
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