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Updated: July 19, 2025
An' Billy Murphy's laughed at me for it. He still follows it. A side-line, you know, because he works at a good trade. But once in a while, when the house needs paintin', or the doctor bills are up, or his oldest kid wants a bicycle, he jumps out an' makes fifty or a hundred bucks before some of the clubs. I want you to meet him when it comes handy. He's some boy I'm tellin' you.
"Laws," said she, in some perturbation, her face flushed, holding the thing in her hand up to his better view, "it's that old paper I got from Isom when I a year ago! I mislaid it when the men was paintin' and plasterin', and I just now run across it stuck back of the coffee jar." For a moment Joe stood behind her, silently, looking over her shoulder at the signature of Isom Chase.
"Did did this Corot feller get as much for every job as he did for this?" "I presume so. I know father considered this one a bargain." "Did, hey? Humph! I ought to know enough by this time not to believe all I hear, but I kind of had an idea that picture paintin' was starvation work. I've read about artists committin' suicide, and livin' in attics, and such. Whew!
Mister, I don't want to hurt your feeling but 'cordin' to my way o' thinkin', paintin' as you do it, an't a trade at all it's nothin' but a darned despisable fine art! 'And with this candid statement of his views, my lost pupil turned to go. I burst out laughing.
"Here's the picture Mr. Congdon is paintin' of the Captain. I wanted him taken with his hat on, but Mr. Congdon said no, and his word went. I don't know whether I like this or not. It's got me twisted." Congdon had been after psychology rather than costume, that was evident at a glance, for the clothing counted for little in the portrait.
"Housekeepin' used to be the favorite perfessun in my day. It ain't fashionable now, but it needs a sight of trainin' to be perfect in all that's required, and I've an idee it would be a sight healthier and usefuller than the paintin' and music and fancy work young women do nowadays."
Your apology, is accepted." "That's good. Er er say, you you must have been sort of surprised to see me paintin' the Daisy M." "The which?" "The Daisy M. That's the name of that old schooner I was to work on." "Indeed. . . . How is the weather tonight, clear?" "Yes, it's fair now, but looks sort of thick to the east'ard.
But twenty guineas for a bit of a paintin' as he knocked off in an hour or two!" He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing. "And when does he handle th' money?" asked the collier. "That I couldn't tell you. When the picture is sent home, I suppose." There was silence. Morel stared at the sugar-basin instead of eating his dinner.
"Earn your livin' by paintin', don't you earn your livin'?" The painter smiled a little bitterly. "No," he said, "if I did, I shouldn't be alive. Mr. Bass, have you ever done anything the pleasure of doing which was pay enough, and to spare?" Jethro looked at him, and something very like admiration came into the face that was normally expressionless.
And the female figgers around Columbia's throne wuz meant for Science, Industry, Commerce, Agriculture, Music, Drama, Paintin', and Literature, all on 'em a-helpin' Columbia along in her grand pathway. And then I see that what I had hearn wuz true, that Columbia had jest discovered Woman. Yes, the boat wuz headed directly towards Woman, who stood up one hundred feet high in front.
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