The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-28
nearly all horses. Don't you draw any,

uedIly oil uOISeS. OOA yOu uAo" any,
thing else?"
Horses are my best subject sail
Maud, glancing up from bundle of his
manuscript. do you only do this sort
of dialogue thing? It's good, but"
Il don't wish to be rude,' said Cecil,
"but it seems to me that true artist
should be able to draw anything" b..
Pardon my plain spokenness," said
Maud, "but if man who calls himself
an author can't write horse story"
"Never yet," said Cecil, firmly, has
a story of mine so far demeaned itself
as to let horse wander into it."
Cant you write an adventure tale
/ can do ripping charging rhinoceros.
Dol"
Il will not drag charging rhinoceros
into my Stories"
Cecil, -dear!"
II don't know anything about rhinoc-
e.oses."
mo, but do"
Look here, Maud, surely you can
draw man in frock coat and girl
in Paris gown. That's all the illus
trating my stories want; and it's all
the public seems to want
20, can, of course. Only lot of
other people c>,uAd do it much better
Whereas"
Cecil suddenly stopped at one of the
drawings.
by Jove!" he said. Il should think
so. This is charging rhinoceros, it
you like
There you are!" said Maud.
Eyes," said Cecil, thoughtf1lly; Il
wish could write that sort Of stories. -
Miss Arthur sat down on the floor
and arranged<her drawings and Cecils
stories at her feet.
''Now," she began, "let's see what
can be done by contrivance If a girl
who dresses entirely on the summer
sales can't fix this up, then"
There was a dialogue of Cecil's in
which Ronald, contrary to che usual
custom of Ethel's young men, let the
public into the secret of his intended
proposal. Half way through the story
it was made clear that the hero was try
ing to summon up his courage for the
plunge. Maud bounced upon this.
"This will d." she said.
How ever-?"
why, yes. Ronald is palpably nerv-
GUS about this proposal, isn't hs2"
''Well?"
why, then, you've Just got to put in
two extra lines and the thing is done.
Ronald, who. when hunting in East
Africa, had faced charging rhinoceros
without the slightest qualm, now trem-
bled uneasily at the thought Of And
so on. Picture of Ronald absolutely
qualmless facing charging rhinoceros
Underneath the words Hunting
in East Africa, he had faced charging
rhinoceros.
There could be only one end to this:
and the constant reader of Ceoil's sto-
ries will have no difficulty in guessing
what the end was. When you live in
the same house with a person; when you
see her every day, have fresh oppor-
tunity for admiring her cleverness and
beauty; when you-but enough. After
Z dozen stories of his had been gladly
accepted Cecil began to see that Ethel
was thing much of the past
''There!" said Maud one day, as she
waved check in the air, what do you
think of our partnership"
Its been ripping" said Cecil; lets
renew it for fresh term"
Right o! Six months, and a weeks
notice on either side?'
He took her hand.
NO. he said. Forever, my dear"
She raised her eyes to his.
l don't know what the illustration
could have been. Rather happily, an
uncle Of Cecil's died about that time
and left him SIS 5000. They honeymooned
around the world.
And now Cecil writes most desperate
stories Of adventure in the Rockies.
Maud's illustrations are much admired.
I'm inclined to think she is really best
at grizzlies; in spite of that charging
rhinoceros.