Character sketches, combining the best of biography with the finest of narrative — short and illustrative.
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The day I first saw him he was bent over a drawing-board illustrating a snake story for one of the Sunday issues of the Globe-Democrat, which apparently delighted in regaling its readers with most astounding concoctions of this kind, and the snake he was drawing was most disturbingly vital and reptilian, beady-eyed, with distended jaws, extended tongue, most fatefully coiled.
I could not help laughing, of course. The impertinent air! The grand, almost condescending manner!