Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-13
81 s1okRm ON II ~ FINE ARR.

d SAOhhn UN II 10 FAME auFS.
The. following is an amusing extract
from the Boston Sunday Times, and will
be read with considerable disposition to
laughter by all who will take the trou-
BILE to understand its sly hits and %jocose
Painters l. paintins | We nerate. I hev
q galry ov paintins miself.
I visit EN- evry day. al f-,-
don't keep EN- in mi own manshun.
Willmett b RvriAms kee ps EN- for me,
free ov cost.
/. This is cheaper'n keepin EN- in your
own manshun, b don't cost ez much.
You're more liable TO visit EN- two. For
this reazon I hev, at the request ov ths
abov named gentlemen, consented tn let
en- take cart ov mi galry. By this
means the publick at large hey a chance
tn see EN- ez we'll ez miself, free ov cost.
Thare's nothin selfish about this, you
see.
Meny talks their paintins home, Il
locks em up soon ez tina git EN-. That
amt mi stile. Ikontend I'm fosserin
a luz for the fine arts by doom ez | doc.
Painters and skulpters shood remember
this. I
hev recently added tn mi galry IA
Merchantmen on the Grand Banks"
among the Goldfish aristockrisy"-by
Peterson. If you ever, or never went to
sea, you'd or tn 60 to see this. shell
let it remane but a few days only, ez
thare is danger ,ov the sea Dustin its
narrer ~kon6nes, l. loodin the place.
Ez it IL, the salt air & spray hez
caused much damage tn frames around.
If you kant swim, don't 60 near to it
without a life-preseryer.
Sum ,egetistikal cuss once sed, that
tn be a "Roman wuz greater than tn be
a king" I'd rether be the painter ov
this pictur then to be a Roman he'd.
He's a ~paintist OF the fust ,cater. I hev
tride paintin miself in mi youthhood
days.
He'd | stuck tu'it, l think l shoOd hey
made q paintist, ez far as paintin houses,
Wneelp6rrers, anu sicn iine Soes' no -
landscaper, failed. never wuz moch
at drawn
Never Good draw a prize in a lottery
in mi life.
ken draw differences, but tina ar not
allus korrect.
About the only thing l ken draw to
the satisfackshun oy mi trends & miselt
il corks.
l fancy hen draw corks-sum.
l ken draw water, but don't like tn.
II don't agree with me.
| spose | Good draw a handcart.
/ Sum artists hev a CRATE mack for draw
in. Tha ar strengthy that wa. -.
Booth, tho a leetle feller, IL poweriui
on DRAWN. He ken draw q Dig o iuii
ov people.
So ken history & Black CROOK.
Sum landscapes ken draw trees boo
tiful. Its n OF the branches oV the art
tina like. Tha git rooted tn the subJeck.
l like tn ttcig 'em at it.
Sum paints HOSES Wonderful.
If | wuz questioned ez tu oeing aoie
tn paint a boss, | shood be forced tn
anser neigh, unless it might be q clothes
boss.
Sum runs tn bears and luther savage
animals. go,
once essade tn paint a bear from ire
| soon found thare wuz trubble Drum Tor
me and Civ up the job.
A Teller in our town he'd a tame bear
chained tn a post. 1t struck me II hiz
ears wuz painted red he'd look better
/ he'd CIV the nigh a one dob ov red,
when he inserted aela'D' intu the 6argin'
& KUN tn pdtrs IN the t"ransacKshuh,
immedit. ,
made one more effort IN the animal
line, witch wuzn't attended with much
greater sucksess. The subjeck wuz a
"cat in a dark cellar at midnite:'
The canvas TAINTED a ded Dlack, III
represent the darkness.
It wuz q happy thort, & sucksessful.
The cat painted invisible green.
In the center Nv the canvass placed
2 round gobs Nv vermillion tn represent
the cats eyes.
The pictur wuz severely criticised on
this akount. The criticks sed II wood
place the goos In one corner, tna'd WITH
draw opposition. But skorned tn
comply, g the paintin hung IN the Athe-
neum 4 yeers, and no purchaser.
Becoz tina coodn't see the cat, tina
woodn't bi it. Jest ez if you Good see
enything more than the eyes ov a cat in
a dark cellar at midlite. / wuz cate
kissed sharp.
The c~at-harpins ov the criticks proved
mi catastrophy.. Tha woodnt put 1t in
the catalog. 80,
Sum artists paints icebergs.
never Good git warmed up tn thi,
subjeck. I shood prefer Petersburg
its warmer. Still, | am fond ov ices.
Game plcturs IS the tort oV sum. l
painted one once-a eanudss back. |
didn't tech the front side, L no damage
wuz done to the canvass.
Some delites in Alpine scenery. l
like a mixture oV trees-olrcn, maple,
oaks, L so 4th: 1t gives effeck.
Birch is q rite smart tree.
In cullers I'm posted.
Blacks we ar awl posted about, and
hey ben for 20 yeers. Sum SEE black
lint a cutler. Don't we call the blacks
cullerd menu
Thar's bone black, ivory black, black
strap, black crook, & black seal.
Oy the WHITES, we havnt nurd 30