Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 239
y twins, buton examination I discovered that the skill ofthe little artist avoided too great a family re-semblance between the children. Tall, short,thin, fat, laughing, and crying; many in gro-tesque and awkward attitudes ; some posedwith perfect grace, and each and all breathinglife and… … jack spratt could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean. domestic ones, in a jiffy. Where could a littlechild of five years of age have seen and receivedso clear an impression of all these things, andwhence came the dexterity to form them ? This,I said to myself, is genius, intuition; therehas…
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