Rand, Mary Abbott, b. 1840, Belford, Clarke & Co., publisher · Chicago : Belford, Clarke & Co. · leaf 68
tating his qualifi-cations as an engineer, architect, etc., he adds: I willalso undertake any work in sculpture, in marble, inbronze, in terra-cotta; likewise in painting I can do aswell as any man, be he who he may. That sounds like a proud challenge, indeed; but whohas yet picked up the gauntlet… … FIRST OF HIS AGE. But among all the stories of his life there is nosweeter scene than this, where he is looking after thefreed bird as it flies toward heaven, while the childrenlook at him with the adoring faces they turn to thepictured saint.
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