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"There must be an inscription," said the Ambassador, and, rummaging about in his pockets, he brought forth a piece of black crayon.
It is intended as a gift, from a number of subscribers, to Miss Nightingale. Likewise a crayon sketch of , looking rather morbid and unwholesome, as the poor lady really is. Also, a small picture of Mr. Bennoch in a military dress, as an officer, probably of city-horse.
Professor Hughes, however, has with a wizard's power transformed this electrician's bane into a professional glory and a public boon. Verily there is a soul of virtue in things evil. The commonest and at the same time one of the most sensitive forms of the instrument is called the 'pencil microphone, from the pencil or crayon of carbon which forms the principal part of it.
Crayon was not averse, and in an hour three or four local correspondents were sending eastward vivid despatches stating that Mr. Crayon, the representative of the conservative and dissatisfied minority in the party, was in Boisé in close conference with "King" Plummer, the political ruler of the mountains. And the burden of all these despatches was fast-coming evil for Jimmy Grayson.
And it was as he thought; she finished the faces with a few strokes of the crayon old King David was he, and she was Abishag, the Shunammite.
There is also a very pretty picture of a cat in the act of effecting its escape from the basket in which it had been confined, and a wonderful crayon sketch of Maria-Theresa's stepson, Archduke Francis-Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Let us humble creatures be content to have our portraits done in crayon, but the colonel calls for the color-box. So adorned and radiant, this variety of the American aloe floats into the charmed circle of New Orleans society that lively, sparkling epitome and relic of the old régime.
"Is there no one who is willing to go to the board," said Miss Andrews, "and attempt the work, carrying it as far as he can?" At just that moment she caught sight of Earle Hamlin's face, and spoke to him. "Will you try it, Earle?" And Earle went. Silence in the class-room. All eyes on the blackboard, and the quick fingers of one boy handling the crayon. How fast he worked! Had be multiplied right?
That half-humorous turn of the head and almost the twinkling eye, that brisk and jaunty air, that springing step, that modest and gentle and benign presence, all these could be suggested by the artist, and in their happy combination the pleased loiterer would perceive old Diedrich Knickerbocker and the summer dreamer of the Hudson legends, the charming biographer of Columbus and of Goldsmith, the cheerful gossip of Wolfert's Roost, and the mellow and courteous Geoffrey Crayon, who first taught incredulous Europe that beyond the sea there were men also, and that at last all the world must read an American book.
Suffering from extreme weakness of sight, a condition of the brain prohibiting fixed attention, and a nervous derangement, he yet set out upon this labor, using a wooden frame strung with parallel wires to guide his crayon. For the first half-year he averaged six lines of composition a day. And he wrote, I suppose, at least ten hundred thousand lines.
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