eight o'clock
There was an old man who copied Hogarth , he was madly in love with a young woman who copied Rossetti . But she was in love with an academy student who patronised all the girls and spent his time in correcting their drawings . A little further away was another old man who copied Turner . By a special permission he came at eight o'clock , two hours before the galleries were open . It was said that with a tree from one picture , a foreground from another , a piece of distance from a third , a sky from a fourth , he had made a picture which had taken in the Academicians , and had been hung in Burlington House as an original work by Crome . Most of his work was done before the students entered the galleries ; he did very little after ten o'clock ; he pottered round from easel to easel chattering ; but he never imparted the least of his secrets . He knew how to evade questions , and after ten minutes ' cross-examination he would say ` Good morning , ' and leave the student no wiser than he was before .