. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . A T^TE X t£tE. 520 The Origin of a Type of the American Girl building, on the top floor of which he occupies a large andmagnificent studio. He ascends to this in a gilded elevator,scorning the stairs on which he climbed to success. His firstcontribution to Life was a sketch of a dog barking at themoon, which was drawn during the run of the Mikado inNew York, and the picture was labelled after a very pop-ular song in that opera, called The Moon and I. looked at the picture of the absurd little fox-ter-rie


. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . A T^TE X t£tE. 520 The Origin of a Type of the American Girl building, on the top floor of which he occupies a large andmagnificent studio. He ascends to this in a gilded elevator,scorning the stairs on which he climbed to success. His firstcontribution to Life was a sketch of a dog barking at themoon, which was drawn during the run of the Mikado inNew York, and the picture was labelled after a very pop-ular song in that opera, called The Moon and I. looked at the picture of the absurd little fox-ter-rier barking at the round genial moon, and wrote out acheck for four dollars for Mr. Gibson, while that young mansat anxiously outside in the hall with his hat between hisknees. He then gave the check to Mr. Gibson, who re-sisted the temptation to look and see for how large anamount it might be, and asked him to let them have something else. Mr. Gibson went down the stairs sev-eral steps at a time, without complaining of their number,and as he journeyed back to his home in Fl


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