text:  An ancient Briton with his long rough hair and painted body laughing and singing half-naked under a tree may be coarse yet innocent of all intention to offend; but if the imagination (absorbing the anachronism) can conceive him shorn of this falling hair his paint washed off and in this uncovered stated introduced into a drawing-room full of ladies in rouge and diamonds hoops and hair-powder no one can doubt the injury thus done to the ancient Briton