Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 770
is,an aged dresser of vines, knowing his interestin grotesque specimens of natures art, gavehim a lizard that he had found sunning him-self on the garden wall. A lizard at best isqueer enough, but this specimen was the veryqueerest that ever was seen. Yet, still to im-prove natures quaint fancy,… … 1249 1250 THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND (Oct. At sight of it people ran away. Do youwonder, especially when you remember howsuperstitious people were in those days? Another anecdote of da Vincis interest ingrotesque effects is, that in designing amonster coming out of his den among somerocks, he brought…
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