Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-31

Of reference where he could find any
one of them without the loss of a mo-
meut, He worked until II ori2 o'clock.
save for his breakfast hour between
and 49, and by o'clock he was ON
horseback a visitor at Abbotsford
says II was a. pleasant sight to see the
gallant old gentleman In his sealskin
cap and short green Jacket lounglng
along a tield-slde on his mare and
pausing now and thea to Joke with II
laboring man or woman The dinner
hour was early, and the host and his
family with their guests passed
short evening in conversation and
music, This plan was modified some
what by rainy day or an early start
on longer ride than usual.
However, as he said, he broke the
neck OF the days work before break
fast Guests at Abbotsford wondered
when Scott found time TO write the
anonymous romances that We're follow
Ing each other so rapidly from the
press. and marveled how II was phys
ically possible for him to be author OF
thcm-to say nothing of the literary
work being published under his own
name. His guests rode, hunted and
walked with their host. who, never
grudging the time thus given, showed
them landscapes and filled every scene
with action of feuds or illumined 1t
with some ancient ballad or curious
story.
"The shouts of children at play, the
hammering carpenters and masons, the
dogs leaping in and out OF the open
window, these noises never disturbed
him at his work. The children had free
access to his study, and as he was ever
rcady to stop work and tell them II
story the little ones must have ELECTED
from him the fragments OF many an
unwritton Waverley.
Though Scott devoted few hours to
the mere putting of his thoughts on
paper, yet the creative process was
going on nj other times. The lusty
| children OF Nature may not be. as Ed
mund SAYS.
Got tween asleep and awake
still the most vlrile children of a nov
elist's Imagination may be conceived
at Just that time when. according to
| Schopenhauer, consciousness turned
inward IN half-dream attains to
actual clairvoyance. And Scott him
self bears witness to this condition
when he tells US, I lie simmering over
! things for an hour or so before / get
| up; and there Is the time I'm dresslug
| TO overhaul my half-sleeplng, half
| waking projet de cliapitrc. and when
| get the paper before me 1t commonly
runs off pretty easily
"a peep at Sir Walter busy with his
work shows "A man who must be more
1
and broad enough 20 assure great re-
Cooperative powers. head Of the re-
mnrEakle height OF Shakespeares In
the Strntrord bust. and small lightish-
gray eyes deeply set under projecting
! eyebrows which are hedged with
coarse, reddish-gray hair, Balzae.
with one OF his confident half-truths
digger than some persons whole
truths). remarks that the face OF n
genius resembles that Of horse: and
certainly both the face Of Shakespeare
and that Of Sir Walter seem. even Ia
what might be called the long neigh
ing upper lip, TO warrant al least the
suggestion OF such resemblance.
SCOTS complexion II coarse. without
bloom. and dappled with treckles; but
his face Is open. aagacious and benev-
olent. In one hand his pen, held firm
~ at distance. pioyes at a 'dashing
trot' over the paper, while his other
hand Is left free 10 pat the favorite
dog standing Ut hls side.
scott. behind all his Will and energy