Flashman and the art of Chinese calligraphy

. . . a little chap was waiting with a bag of silver and a scroll, which I was invited to sign with a paint-brush. When in Rome . . . I painted him a small cat sitting on a wall, he beamed and I strode out to the cart . . .


Flashman and the Dragon, p.95, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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A monstrous petition

…all the inflamed mob did was to send a monstrous petition across to the House of Commons. It had five million signatures, they said; I know it had four of mine, one in the name of Obadiah Snooks, and three others in the shape of Xs besides which I wrote, ‘John Morrison, Arthur Wellesley, Henry John Temple Palmerston, their marks’.

Flash For Freedom!, pp.18-19, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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