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You won't have nothin' to do hexcept tell off th' watches an' keep th' boys paintin'. Softer'n your fo'cs'l job, though you won't git no hextra pay wot about it?" "That goes with me," agreed Madden readily. "All right, you signal me about anything you don't understand. Make the men step, lively, same as if you was me." By this time the tug had slowed down a trifle and a boat put out from her.
"Did you know Mr. Falkland?" "Yes; we used to see each other now and then. He was a good fellow, but mighty queer. What's the use of settin' down and paintin' pictures? What's the good of it all?" "Don't you admire pictures, Mr. Holden?" asked Herbert. "That's that you called me? I didn't quite catch on to it." "Mr. Holden. Isn't that your name?" "Don't call me mister. I'm plain Jack Holden.
Wanst, whin I was away, th' beautiful Swede slave that scrubs out me place iv business broke into th' palachal boodoor an' in thryin' to set straight th' ile paintin' iv th' Chicago fire burnin' Ilivator B, broke a piece off a frame that cost me two dollars iv good money. If they knew that th' on'y furniture in me room was a cane-bottomed chair an' a thrunk an' that there was nawthin' on th' flure but oilcloth an' me clothes, an' that 'tis so long since me bed was made up that it's now a life-size plaster cast iv me, I'd be dhragged to th' altar at th' end iv a chain.
One asked her if she knowed she needed a new carpet an' he happened to keep carpets, an' another told her her house needed paintin' an' he happened to keep paint, an' another just come out flat as a flounder an' said if she knowed how old her stove was, she'd come straight to him the first thing, an' he happened to keep stoves.
It wuz a tremendus hard undertakin' we had took onto ourselves, with all our spring's work on hand, and not one of us Sisters kep a hired girl at the time, and we had to do our own house cleanin', paintin' floors, makin' soap, spring sewin', etc., besides our common housework. But the very worst on't wuz the meetin' house wuz in such a shape that we couldn't do a thing till that wuz fixed.
Goya, what's the use of paintin' this small party?" finally, to Jack Cardigan, with his shining stare and tanned sanguinity betraying the moving principle: "I'm English, and I live to be fit."
Artists they calls 'emselves, but to my way o' thinking they're a sight more interested in forts an' ships an' suchlike than they are in pickchers and paintin'." I looked at him steadily for a moment. There was no doubt that the man was in earnest. "You think they're spies?" I said quietly. He nodded his head. "That's it, sir. Spies that's what they are; a couple o' dirty Dutch spies damn 'em."
This taciturn little girl, with her old, solemn face and clever fingers, was her favorite of the children. "What are you making?" she asked, as the child dipped a brush into one of three cans which stood before her. "She's paintin' a picture," announced Mrs. Wiggs, proudly.
Jared during his visit to the city had not confined his attention to the display of the Western artists. He had talked with several dealers, and had visited one or two makers of picture-frames, and had taken note of the prominence given to "art" in the offices and corridors of the great hotels. "I tell you," he declared roundly, "paintin' 's got the call everywhere.
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