Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-23
Wnnted an order.

critic around TO my studio to take some
notes"
might, eh?" said the editor between
chews.
ayes, sir. For instance. there's a
mammoth winter storm landscape I've
lust finished for Mr.. Mudd, the bo-
nanza king. It's called "A Hailstorm
in the Adirondack, and a visitor who
sat down near it the otLer day caught
a sore throat in less than fifteen min
utes. The illusion is so perfect, you
understand. Why, | had TO put in the
finishing touches with my ulster and
arctic overshoes on"
Don't say?"
Fact, sir; and there's a little ami
NAL gem / did for Governor Glerkins
the other day-pOrtrait of his Scotch
terrier, Snap. The morning it was
done a cat got into the studio, aud the
the minute it saw that picture it went
through the window sash like a ten
inch SHELF
did, eh?"
Eyes, and the oldest thing about it
was VIXEN | next looked at the canvas
the dogs hair was standing up all
aloog bis back like a porcupine. Now,
how do you account for that?"
Dunno"
ut Just beats me. When the gov
ernor examined the work he insisted
on my painting a post with the dog
chained to it. Said he didn't know
what might happeh.
Good scheme" growled the presi-
dent-maker.
II don't do muchin the animal line,
though, continued the artist, thought
fully; that is, not since last summer.
| painted a California polecat for an
English tourist from the skin OF one
he killed by mistake for a grizzly IN
in the foothills. And if you'll take
my word for it, the day | finished its
business end the health Office officials
came down, fumigated the place,
and arrested me for maintaining a nut
sance."
did, eb2'
Absurd, warn't it? | did a setter
dog for the same man, and shipped it
10 him at Liverpool. But it seems the
heas got into the box and bit 50 many
holes in the canvas that he threw it
back on my hands"
TOO bad
Wash it, though. My best bold,
however, is water views You know
George Bromley, and how distracted
he is at times, Well, George dropped
in one morning, and brought up be-
fore an eight by twelve view Of the
San joaquin river with a boat tied to
the bank in the foreground, I'm
blessed if George didn't absent-mind-
edly take off his coat and step clear
through tho canvas trying TO jump
into that boat-thought he'd 20 out
rowing, you know"
NO, l don't know"
Speaking about that picture re
minds me OF a mean trick that vas
played on me by Dobber, whose studio
is right next TO mine. He was so en-
vious Of my large orders that the night
before that painting was to be deliy
cred, he climbed over the transom and
smeared out the rope that anchored
the boat ! spoke Of to the shore. The
next mornig the skif was gone
hoated off down the stream; you
see?"
"ldo-do I?'
1T took me four days to paint it in
a~gain-dead loss, you see; although !
believe the purchaser did agree to pay
me twenty five dollars EXTRA il case it
came back on the next tide. Pretty
square of him, now; wasn't it,"
''Have they carried out that Jour-
neyman with smallpox said the edi
tor, winking at tbe foreman, who had
come in Just then to swear for copy.
Smallpox? That reminds nc Of a
realistic historical subject I'm en-
gagged en- now, entitled The Plague Of
Egypt. 1 lad only completed four
Of the principal figures when last
Tuesday the j%anitor, who sleeps in the
next FoGw, was taken out to the hos
pital with tbs most pronounced case
Of leprosy you ever saw, and this
morning the boy who mixes the paints
began TO scale off like a slate roof. |
| don't really know whether to keep on
with tie work or not. How does it
strike yopYP
1T strikes me fiat you'd better
slide, sad the unS stbetic mOulder
OF public opinion, gFuRy.
Don't care to send a reporter
round, them?
mo, sir"
"Woulds' like to give an order for
a life-sized 'QutteGburg Discovering
th3 Printing Press eh ~
Nary order"
Don't want a seven by niue erogp
OF the staff done 10 oil or erayon2 2"
NO, said the editor, as he again
lowered himself into the depths of a
leader on tke Roumanian imbroelio.
but II you care y touch up two win
dow frames, some large desks, and the
Gghtise eaitor's black eye Tor four bit.
and a lot Of comic exchanges, you ca6
sail In"
Its a whacA r promptly calculated
the disciple Of aesthetic culture and
bon9Eing a cigarette from the dram.
attic CRITIC Ga account he drilted of
after his brushes.