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The American Claimant

CHAPTER XVI
11/18

But I can't do a hearse any more than I can a hack; so here we are--becalmed, you see.

And it's the same with women and such.

They come and they want a little johnry picture--" "It's the accessories that make it a 'genre ?'" "Yes--cannon, or cat, or any little thing like that, that you heave into whoop up the effect.

We could do a prodigious trade with the women if we could foreground the things they like, but they don't give a damn for artillery.

Mine's the lack," continued the captain with a sigh, "Andy's end of the business is all right I tell you he's an artist from way back!" "Yoost hear dot old man! He always talk 'poud me like dot," purred the pleased German.
"Look at his work yourself! Fourteen portraits in a row.


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