James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . ( :--. r< tj ,. diana, Michigan and other nearby a small town was reached McClan-nahan descended to dicker with the mer-chants, explaining the value of havinga sign neatly done at the front of theirstores by a painter who could not see. Bythe time the arrangements had been madethe word had spread abroad that the quietyoung man sitting on the ladders in thewagon could not see but could paint signswithout sight. An agreement having been reached,the ladders would be placed for thepainter and Riley, practicing every mani-festation of blind
James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . ( :--. r< tj ,. diana, Michigan and other nearby a small town was reached McClan-nahan descended to dicker with the mer-chants, explaining the value of havinga sign neatly done at the front of theirstores by a painter who could not see. Bythe time the arrangements had been madethe word had spread abroad that the quietyoung man sitting on the ladders in thewagon could not see but could paint signswithout sight. An agreement having been reached,the ladders would be placed for thepainter and Riley, practicing every mani-festation of blindness that he knew,would carefully ascend, and with elabor-ate manipulation, mark off the spaces heintended his letters to occupy. A crowdof several hundred would be collected bythis time to watch the progress of theblind sign painter. In the due course of time the workwould be done, to the admiration of theassemblage. Riley preserved the sem-blance of blindness until all the business
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