Pixies Stealing Food 1877 rebus it’s the way I cook

it’s the way I cook them

The tenants at the Hotel Savoy enjoyed their own luxury accommodations with a restaurant on premise that was at their beck and call

many of them immigrants

" After his death in a boating accident

who was German and who was brought up in the duchy of Saxe Coburg

Pixies Stealing Food 1877 rebus it’s the way I cookAccording to 19th century lore, pixies were benign but mischievous creatures that usually appeared at night, gathering in large numbers when people were asleep. They had slanting eyes and hair that pointed upwards and they were plump little sprites. This charming series of illustrations was found in a journal kept by a wealthy person as a souvenir of a Grand Tour of Europe. They show pixies making off with food from a dinner table. Two of them wrestle