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Updated: June 19, 2025
There was nothing to do but to run away or do somethin' so they wouldn't want me any more. And I didn't want to do that, but I pretty near stumbled into it. That afternoon I went out into the work house and there I found all kinds of paint, red, white, blue and green. So I began to paint pictures. Then I took to paintin' signs.
The old houses is pretty much the same, an' the old signs want touchin' up and paintin' jest as had as ever; an' there's that old palin' fence that me an' Ben Hake an' Jimmy Nowlett put up twenty year ago. I've tramped and travelled long ways since then. But things is changed at least, people is.... Well, I must be goin'. There's nothing to keep me here. I'll push on and get into my track again.
This painter Gauguin wasn't such good company as Stevenson, because 'e parleyvoud, but 'e was a bloody worker with 'is brushes at Atuona. 'E was cuttin' wood or paintin' all the time." "He was a damn' fool," said Hallman, who had come in to the Cercle to take away Captain Pincher. "I lived close to him at Atuona all the time he was there till he died. He was bughouse.
Captain Elisha patted him on the back. "Now don't you get discouraged," he said. "I used to have an idea that novel writin' and picture paintin' was poverty jobs for men with healthy appetites, but I've changed my mind. I don't know's you'll believe it, but I've just found out, for a fact, that some painters get twenty-two thousand dollars for one picture. For one, mind you.
Who owns it?" "Bunga which? Oh, that cottage over on t'other side the crick? That b'longs to a couple of paintin' fellers from up Boston way. Not house painters, you understand, but fellers that put in their time paintin' pictures of the water and the beach and the like of that. Seems a pretty silly job for grown-up men, but they're real pleasant and folksy.
Also, I guess likely, they're startin' out with as good prospects as any bride an' groom that's walked up the middle aisle o' the meetin'-house for many a year.... How'd you like that Boston singer that the Wilsons brought here, Abby? Wait a minute, is Cephas, or the Deacon, tendin' store this after-noon?" "The Deacon; Cephas is paintin' up to the Mills."
Jimmy called it a 'black an' white, an' said 'twan't paintin' that he wanted ter do, but 'lustratin' fer books and magazines, you know. She felt hurt, an' all put out at first: but Jimmy told her 'twas all right, an' that there was big money in it; so she got 'round contented again. She couldn't help it, anyhow, with Jimmy, he was that lovin' an' nice with her.
What made you think of that? Don't you see it's the corner of the orchard there, with all the thistles and docks and wild flowers?" "Well, to be sure! Fancy anyone a paintin' them weeds and trumpery!" and with that cheerless remark the old fellow sheered off.
Folks can dance here all the time from mornin' till night, if they want to, but we didn't want to dance no, indeed! nor see it; our legs wuz too wore out, and so wuz our eyes, so we wended on to the Lapland Village. The main buildin' in this is a hundred feet long, with a square tower in the centre. Above the main entrance is a large paintin' representin' a scene in Lapland.
It's like the cycloraymy to Boston; you can't tell where the ground ends and the paintin' commences. Oh, I do want 'em to begin!" Mr. Savor laughed at his wife's impatience, and she said playfully: "What you laughin' at? I guess you're full as excited as what I be, when all's said and done."
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