The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-07-13

nearly all horses. Don't you draw any
thing else?"
Horses are my best subject" said
Maud. glancing up from a 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 1t seems TO me that a true artist
should be able to draw anything"
Pardon my plain spokenness," said
Maud, but IL a man who calls himself
an author cant write horse story"
Never yet" said Cecil, firmly, has
a story OF mine so far demeaned itself
as to let a horse wander into t."
Cant you write an adventure tale?
| can do ripping charging rhinoceros.
Dol"
Il will not drag charging rhinoceros
into my stories.'
Cecil, dearl"
Il don't know anything about rhinoc-
crosses"
No, but do"
Look here, Maud, surely you can
draw a man in a frock coat and a girl
in Paris gown. That's all the illus
trating my stories want; aud it's all
the public seems 10 want"
20, can. OF course Only a lot of
other people could do il much better.
whereas"
Cecil suddenly stopped at one of the
drawings.
by Jove!" be said. Il should think
SO. This is a charging rhinoceros, il
you like"
There you arel" said Maud
YES" said Cecil, thoughtfully: Il
wish could write that sort Of stories"
Miss Arthur sat down on the floor
and arranged her drawings and Cecil's
stories at her feet
Now" she began. let's see what
can be done by contrivance. II girl
who dresses entirely on the summer
sales can't TX this up, then"
There was a dialogue of Cecil's In
which Ronald. contrary to the 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 pounced upon this.
This will do. she said.
How ever"
Why, yes. Ronald is palpably nerv-
Gus about this proposal, isn't bel"
"well?"
y why, then. you've iust got 10 put in
two extra lines and the thing is done
Ronald who. when hunting in East
Africa. had faced a charging rhinoceros
without the slightest qualm. now trem-
bled uheasily 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 a charging
rhinoceros.
There could be only one end 10 this:
and the constant reader OF Cecils sto-
ries will have no dificulty in guessing
what the end was when you live in
the same house with person; when you
see her every day. have a fresh oppor-
tunity for admiring her cleverness and
beauty; when you-but enough. After
a dozen stories of his had been gladly
accepted Cecil began to see that Ethel
was a thing much of the past
'There!" said Maud one day. as she
waved a check in the air. what do you
think Of our partnership"
It's 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
don't know what the illustration
could have been. Rather happily, an
uncle OF Cecil's died about that time
and left him $1,000 They boneymooned
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.
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