St. Nicholas, Volume 37Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1909 - Children's literature |
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Page 293 - A high chair was placed at the table, pencils and paper were brought, and the infant artist soon produced an astonishingly striking likeness. Mr Kenyon now coaxed the child, who had got tired by the half- hour's labour, and asked him if he could take the likeness of the lady ? " Yes, that I can," was the reply once more, " if she will turn her side to me, for her face is not straight.
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Page 293 - Kenyon used to relate, her vexation and anger were suddenly changed into admiration. He was riding on a stick, and went round and round the room, in the height of infantile joyousness. Mrs Kenyon, as soon as she could get him to stand, asked him if he could take the likeness of that gentleman, pointing to her husband. " That I can," said the little Lawrence,
Page 79 - ... at elevations above a thousand feet in Sonora and Arizona, while a third, with a number of smaller heads in a cluster, was seen nearer the Gulf of California. The larger species often measure over 5 feet in height, with a diameter of more than 2 feet at the base, containing as much as 6 or 8 gallons of water. This sap is only slightly charged with substances ordinarily in solution in the plant-cell, and an Indian runner, striving to make a swift journey in Papagueria, need not carry water with...