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"What does he do with them picters of his?" asked Mat. "Sell 'em?" "Of course!" answered the other, confidently; "and gets enormous sums of money for them." Whenever Zack found an opportunity of magnifying a friend's importance, he always rose grandly superior to mere matter-of-fact restraints, and seized the golden moment without an instant of hesitation or a syllable of compromise.
"Hully gee, Carl! but de circus's a-goin' ter be a dandy," he called out in delight, as he patted a double shuffle with his feet. "I see de picters on de fence when I come from de ferry. Dere's a chariot-race out o' sight, an' a' elephant what stands on 'is head. Hold on till I see ef de Big Gray 's got enough beddin' under him. He wuz awful stiff dis mornin' when I helped him up."
"Everything seems kind o' turnin' upside down," he said. He drew a deep breath. "What d'ye s'pose it is, Willum about 'em picters that makes 'em cost so like the devil?" Uncle William looked thoughtful. "I dunno," he said slowly. "I've thought about that, myself. Can't be the paint nor the canvas." "Cheap as dirt," said Andy. "Must be the way he does 'em."
The little document which the man, in retiring, left with Christie Johnstone purported to come from one Victoria, who seemed, at first sight, disposed to show Charles Gatty civilities. "Victoria to Charles Gatty, greeting! A letter fra the queen to a painter lad! Picters will rise i' the mairket it will be an order to paint the bairns. I hae brought him luck; I am real pleased."
And now the day had come; and with I don't know how few dollars in his pocket, his scant earnings, he had declared to his astounded parents his determination to fish and shoemake no longer, but to learn to be a painter. "A great painter," that was what he said. "I don't see the use o' paintin' picters, for my part," said the old man, despairingly; "can't you learn that, an' fish tu?"
It is owned by the German National Gallery, and is loaned by them," and sez he, with a ready flow of knowledge inherent to them Guards, "the artist, Adolph Menzel, is to German art what Meissonier is to the French. His picters are all bought by the National Gallery, and bring enormous sums." Josiah almost swooned away. Nothin' but pride kep him up I didn't say nothin' to add to his mortification.
Jenkins, he said very politely, 'will your picture be put up there when you're dead? 'Law, no! said Jenkins testily. 'What a silly child you be! Tis only grandees can have their picters taken. 'Has my father had his picture taken? 'More'n I can say. He don't belong to this house. Your mother's picter were taken, and the mistress keeps it locked up. She were wonderful fond of Miss Vera.
'It oughtn't to be, Samivel, said Mr. Weller gravely. 'It mustn't be, said Sam. 'Cert'nly not, said Mr. Weller. 'Vell now, said Sam, 'you've been a-prophecyin' away, wery fine, like a red-faced Nixon, as the sixpenny books gives picters on. 'Who wos he, Sammy? inquired Mr. Weller.
'Come along, Queenie; there's Mrs. Vesey standing at the drawing-room window waving to us. We must not keep her waiting. Can't you leave your doll-people in the boat, dear? Binks will see that the dogs don't worry them to bits. 'Ay, ay! That I will, missy. Bless 'em both, they're picters, they two, as taut and trig as you please.
I allus was a painter," he continued, "if I did foller the sea. Why, in my bark, the Wetherall it was, I had fancy picters on the bulkheads an' gold linin' over the white but she got in a twistin' jimmycane, such as we have in these waters. Thar's my island!" He held up one canvas, a foot high and two feet wide, tacked over a piece of board.
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