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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 283

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red forth complete. As the child grew older he did not restricthimself to copying in his silhouettes only theliving or pictured models that came in his path.His future skill as an illustrator was foreshad-owed in the way he chose his subjects. Hewould come home from school full of somestory he had… … his mastershorse, of thecountrymanwho whippedsome balkingmule, or of thequarrelsomerooster in hisvarious bel-ligerent atti-tudes. Oneof his mostlaughableworks showsa hen andher chickensfleeing beforethe pursuing foe. Each little chick is evidentlyin a different state of mind from any of the…

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