Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 283
erial uponwhich he worked seemed to be of noconsequence. Any paper, white ortinted, thick or thin, blank or writtenover, would answer, so long as it wasuncrumpled. There was no paste-brush used to join different parts ofhis pictures; a single piece of paperwould serve for a figure, and some-times… … clumsy shears with as much apparent ease asthe bolder outlines of his figures of people andlarge animals. In and out of the jaws of thebig scissors would move the slip of paper, untilthe lace-like picture fluttered forth complete. As the child grew older he did not restricthimself to copying in his…
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