The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-02-10
HIGH ART.
As fhsy Record Il West d the Rocss
les.

/ r~" -sy 80 'so's' ~" yOe' popot
asked . rather seeds looking IN 10
With long hair. = slonch bs,. sat
pdn on 10 angets, s,flly udsinr
into the Posts inner sanctum tn,
other day.
Tho managing elitr glsacs I .sv
asely up from his umnisy sand
which. aud after evidently rsprecs.
ing q desirn TO add the long haired
party to his visnj., rspliet ia the
affirm ntivs.
"8nsiss |" coptoued the youog
man. st, Wing critically at u CHEAP
chromu on the aall, because
th,ti yoi carsl 20 record ths pr.
gress of red ,astheti, art o ilLnrs ~
this cosst you might sen I your ar,
caltare Oh mi, c,,st y,i night sea !
your art of,tic aro,nit) NJ st,ii,
to take 80 10 uotss."
'Misit, ei" sWi a, slit)r, 10.
tween cbSws.
"fe es, sir. For instance, there q
ms moth winter-stor,n landscape
I've just flushed fot MIR. Audd, the
bonauza king. It's called "A Hall
Stor niiti5 ,i,r''iSi,. aud \
visitor SnI at lava iIit il The
other iAv ciisIt a sIrs tnrIat 10
lsss than fiftssn ,nip itss. rns ILL.,
usious - ~ perfect, yoa nn lsrstsu.i.
Why, l hal to PIT 10 finishing
touches With my ulstsr aud Arctic
overahoss ou,
"Oou't say
"Faot, sir ; aud there's little aui.
NAL gem dill for General Glerkius
the other d,y-portrait Of his
Scocth TERROR, Susp. The moru-
ing Il vas doue a cat got into the
studio, aud the minute IL saw that
picture it went through the Windows
sash like . ten-inch she'll"
"Did, oh -
"Yss, aud the oldest tn ing abodt
IL was that wheu I next looked at
tho canvas the dogs hair was stand.
ing up all along his back like a por.
cupine. Now, how do yon account
for that ~
"Dunuo.'
1T just beats me. W,en the
Governor examined tho work he in
sisted on nv pinting y post with
the dog chained to it. Said he
didn't know what might happen.
"0ocd scheme" growled the
president. mn ker.
II dou't do much 10 the animal
line. though" continued tho artist,
"thst 10, not since
last simmer. painted California
polecat for an English tonrist, frpm
The skin Of one he killed by mistake
for . grizzly mp iu the foothills
And il you'll take my word for it,
The day I finished it's business end
tho health officers came down. fu-
migated the place aud arrested me
for maintaining . nuisance"
did, eh T.
"Absuri, wasn't il? did a set.
tor dog for the same man and
shipped II TO him at Liverpool.
But IL ssems the fsas got iuto the
box aud bit so many holes in the
boz and bit so many holes in the
canvass that he threw IL back on
nv hands"
"Too bad"
'"wssnt Il, though 7 Ny best
b old, boweveI, is water VIEW,
You know George Bromley. and
how sbstractei he is sometimes.
Well. George dr,ppai ID INA N rn
ns aud brought mp before au 8xI3
REV Of the jAn J,.qaiu river, with
. boat tied to the bank in the fore
ground. I'm Blessed II uenrge
lida't absen'.nindedly take off hl-
,ost aud step clear through tue can
'ass trying to iq,ap iatp the boat
thought he'd go out rowing, you
know"
@SpsAkiog about tho piOture fs.
minds inc Of Q mean trick that was
played ou me by Dobber, whose
'tudid' d, right next TO mine. liz
sas 90 suvions Of ny large orders
hat the night before that paint ng
vas TO he delivered, hs cli,hbsd ovsr
he transom AMI smearsd out the
'ops that auchorsi the boat fspeak
Il u tho shore. The next morning
be skiff wss gous--doatsd down
'trsA,u. Jun sse."
u do---do ~
III soat ne fcat lays 10 paint !,
a again -AisAd loss, you sss , 81