The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 128
p. & F. 13. DOING THINGS INDOORS AND OUT 323 join different parts of his pictures; a single pieceof paper would serve for a figure, and sometimesfor a series of figures, or for a whole scene. The delicate foliage of histrees and vines, the con-volutions of his ser-pents, the open mouthsof his… … shears with as much apparent ease as the bolderoutlines of his figures of people and large animals.In and out of the jaws of the big scissors wouldmove the slip of paper, until the lace-like picturefluttered forth complete. As the child grew older he did not restrict him-self to copying in his…
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