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Sketches of great painters for young people (1902)

Dallin, Colonna Murray, Mrs · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and Company · leaf 114

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sacross day after day. At length one stormy night, he heard a childs voicesaying, Christopher, carry me over. He went out ofthe hut and saw a child on the shore. He then tookhis staff, and putting the little one on his shoulder,entered the stream. As the storm rose, the child grewheavier and… … St. Christopher.97 98 SKETCHES OF GREAT PAINTERS. thy staff and it shall blossom and bear fruit. He didso, and the dry palm tree bore clusters of dates.Then the Child vanished, and the giant was no longercalled Offero, the bearer, but Christopher, the Christ-bearer. Titian painted a number of…

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