American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . zarette. One might live a hundred years and yet never come acrossso quaint, old, battered, and grimy a whaler as this Sea Queen, fresh as she was from nearlytwo years washing about in search of prey south of the Cape of Good Hope. As a contrast, and to refresh our national dignity, let us copy his words on just such a 304 AMERICAN ART smart Yankee schooner as Perkins has drawn many times: She was as fine a schooner asever breasted the blue surge; of the old Baltimore clipper type, black and long, with a highbronzing of me
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . zarette. One might live a hundred years and yet never come acrossso quaint, old, battered, and grimy a whaler as this Sea Queen, fresh as she was from nearlytwo years washing about in search of prey south of the Cape of Good Hope. As a contrast, and to refresh our national dignity, let us copy his words on just such a 304 AMERICAN ART smart Yankee schooner as Perkins has drawn many times: She was as fine a schooner asever breasted the blue surge; of the old Baltimore clipper type, black and long, with a highbronzing of metal, and a noble flight of sea wings rising to the royal at the fore. You sawthe white water pulsing at her bows as she came along, shearing through it like a knifethrough satin, with a hurry of light in her glossy sides that seemed reverberated to the veryheight of her in the tremulous pulling of her star-spangled bunting. That he may yet draw numbers more, and not only such but pictures galore of the kindthat have pleased thousands, is a wish in which all will
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