Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 285
ward sothat her short skirt tilts up at the back, her lipsparted, her shovel and pail firmly grasped, arephotographic in their clearness; while in thepose of the boy the mingled pride and fearwith which he holds the bird are as accuratelygiven as the minutest details of his dress. Noshading or… … he is not yet thirty.No one can sayhow much of hiswonderful skill heowes to the train-ing in eye and handhe unconsciouslygave himself as aboy; but it is easyto trace in hisscissors silhouettesthe power he pos-sesses in an emi-nent degree of giv-ing a picture in afew clear, telling strokes. The…
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