Window Cleaning in the British Museum Reading-Room

Once a year or so the figures on the Assyrian bas-reliefs break adrift and may be seen, with their scaling ladders and all, cleaning the outside of the windows in the dome of the reading-room.  It is very pretty to watch them and they would photograph beautifully.  If I live to see them do it again I must certainly snapshot them.  You can see them smoking and sparring, and this year they have left a little hole in the window above the clock.