Consequent troubles for Daniel in the exhibition-rooms--Daniel's difficulty with an artist making copies--Takes his sketch-book from him--Tableaux vivans commenced--List of the groups--Hon. Mr. Murray attends, with His Royal Highness the Duc de Brabant--The Author presented to Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, by the Hon. Mr. Murray--Indian Collection removed to Liverpool--Biennial exhibition of Mechanics' Institution--22,000 children admitted free to the Indian Collection in one week--The Indian tableaux vivans in the provincial towns for six months--Collection opened in Sheffield--In Manchester--Nine Ojibbeway Indians arrive, in charge of Mr. Rankin--His proposal to the author. Poor Daniel in the exhibition-rooms! I mentioned in the preceding chapter that our appearance at the Polish ball had greatly increased the number of shillings, but, at the same time, it was, as he said, doing great injury to the Collection, as people paid their shillings expecting to see the real Indians, and then, finding their error, revenged themselves upon poor Daniel by calling him and the whole concern hard names, and in various ways provoking him. Politics--Caste--Slavery--Truck-system--Poor-houses--Repeal--Oregon--and Repudiation were the exciting topics--all of which he was able and ready to discuss; and the kind of visitors I just now mentioned, under their disappointment at the rooms, were prepared to annoy him on these topics, and irritate him to such a degree that it made his duties doubly hard to him and their visits less pleasant to themselves than they would otherwise have been. He had other things that annoyed him, amongst which were the constant efforts by artists and amateurs to make copies in the room for paintings and designs, which they somehow seemed to fancy. After having risked my life and spent my little fortune in the wilderness to procure such exciting and such original studies, and bring them to England, I did not consider it fair that these gentlemen should step into my rooms just when they had an hour of leisure, and industry enough to use it, and copy whatever they could most easily convert into cash. So many of these attempts had been made, that I was obliged to post a printed notice around the walls, that "_No copying was allowed in the rooms._"