The clothes, halter, and Gibbs's hair were
authentic. E. K. Avery and Cornell,--the former a figure in black,
leaning on the back of a chair, in the attitude of a clergyman about to
pray; an ugly devil, said to be a good likeness. Ellen Jewett and R. P.
Robinson, she dressed richly, in extreme fashion, and very pretty; he
awkward and stiff, it being difficult to stuff a figure to look like a
gentleman. The showman seemed very proud of Ellen Jewett, and spoke of
her somewhat as if this wax-figure were a real creation. Strong and Mrs.
Whipple, who together murdered the husband of the latter. Lastly the
Siamese twins. The showman is careful to call his exhibition the
"Statuary." He walks to and fro before the figures, talking of the
history of the persons, the moral lessons to be drawn therefrom, and
especially of the excellence of the wax-work. He has for sale printed
histories of the personages. He is a friendly, easy-mannered sort of a
half-genteel character, whose talk has been moulded by the persons who
most frequent such a show; an air of superiority of information, a moral
instructor, with a great deal of real knowledge of the world.
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