The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07

oVergalGers 1t Is true, bat with a small
gloved hand on my coat sleeve, where
l can feel it yet.
SO l went after the services to tell
the pastor how much 1 was pleased
with his choir, ETC., but he was gone.
Westminster church is where the
queen was crowned fifty odd years ago,
and has never since its erection or con-
~secratlon given a mush and milk
sociable.
Yesterday I visited the National
gallery because it was the day when
artlsts come to make copies of the old
masters. There you see old and gray
ARTISTS pegging away at copies of
RuOens, and young and pretty girl
artlsts-prettier than any of the pic.
lures they + painting-and all at
work regardless Of passing and curious
people. They are all wrapped up in
their art.
L watched n young lady over her
shoulder while she painted a sunset
sort of an explosion it looked like-in
the Turner collection. Then l asked
her what price she vas going to put on
it, but she called an attendant, who
arrested me and confined me in the
Hogarth room for half an hour.
They are very severe with people
who interfere with artists who are
working.
The works of Turner have been often
criticised, and especially by the I'm
learned. Artists never speak severely
of him, but common people do. For
my wi part, 1 do not care for him.
Possibly that is because L am UMPIRE
pared to judge, but I am not afraid to
stand up here to day with my hand on
heart and say that, if you will give me
a good, clean tablecloth and move it
around a little each meal so that the
place where I carve will come on a
new spot each time, I'll give you in a
weeks time a Turner that by touching
up a little will make people pop their
eyes out.
Speaking of the Hogarth collection,
I will say en- PEASANT that it was the
only room in which no artists we're
copying. While all the other masters
had students and venerable artists
clustered about them, Hogarth's dis
orderly house was still. I am not
surprised.
His portrait of himself, by himself,
hung where 1T faced his Marriage a la
Mode" on the opposite wall, and he
seemed to say to himself sadly, did l
devote my inspired brush to such work
as that and hope to be loved or copied
in coming years7"
Comparatively few Americans are
here this year the tradesmen say and
account for it on the ground that they
are staying at home to visit the great
fair, or, as I heard a poetic kind of
man say once, "The White City"
But I couldn't tell at glance whether
there were a few more or less here of
any kind of people in London than
than there had been. One or two might
be snatched away by death before
night, and to morrow l would not know
it. But after I had been here, ofcourse,
for a week or two it would be different.
A Frenchman here last week got a
frightful and CHASTITY blow On the head
and is still lying at the police hospital
unconscious-possibly dying.
The circumstance occurred in this
now. HI ord T Boro 4o1Eirn about
thieves, ETC., and he showed me a guard
which he wore on his watch. Itseemed
very ingenious, and I was quite struck
with it.
You like it," said he.
Yes, very much"
Vera we'll, you shall have eet."
And he took it off, and before I could
say Jack Robinson he had it on my
watch. 1 thanked him very profusely
and in a way that would have made
old man Chesterfield go and jump off
the dock.
Don't mention it, sare, " he said. ut
is not ~necessaire. Ihave just returned
from Amerique. need ez dam sing
no lOngare."
If 1 run across anything of interest
or anything new comes to town, I will
draw it off in a letter next week or the
week after. I am going to sort of look
around here some more on the subrosa,
q. t in cog, or on the dead, as Spencer
would say, and jot down things here
and there, after which 1 am goIEg back
to Cork and other towns.
Tomorrow I go to Windsor castle to
stay a couple of days. Her majesty Is
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