Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 127
time or another, would stopand look on as I worked, so that I rarely paintedwithout an audience. Among the water-carriers was one poor creaturewho, from his entire lack of personal comeliness,was noticeable even among his companions —none of whom possessed physical graces to anymarked degree. His… … selling TEA-POTS AND shadowed by the straw band which held uponhis head his queer little round hat. We wickedlychristened him the Missing Link ; and, truly,no mortal seemed ever to embody that title sofully. He was a picture of forlorn, hopeless pov-erty and subjection as he toiled up the steep…
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