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Cecilia of Raphael, 'Anch' io son pittore'? or do you intend to limit your ambition, a la Dick Tinto, to the effecting of two liquidations in one by the restoration of tavern-signs?" "Please do not taunt me, Mac, for I am cast down, almost. I have the grandest conception, but the life-touch escapes me.
Bartlett thinks this a corruption; but the resemblance of the fish, as seen in the water, to the ordinary portraits of the sun in almanacs and on tavern-signs seems to us enough to account for the name. A few phrases occur to us that have escaped Mr. Bartlett. A CARRY: portage. Passim. CAT-NAP: a short doze. New England. CHOWDER-HEAD: muddle-brain. New England.
She nodded absently, fingering her leggin-fringe; then, with a sudden, indrawn breath: "We were no more than roving gypsies, you see, living from hand to mouth, and moving on, always moving from town to town, remaining in one place while there were portraits to paint or tavern-signs, or wagons anything to keep us clothed and fed.
"From thence, along that tipling street, Distinguish'd by the name of Fleet, Where Tavern-Signs hang thicker far, Than Trophies down at Westminster; And ev'ry Bacchanalian Landlord Displays his Ensign, or his Standard, Bidding Defiance to each Brother, As if at Wars with one another."
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