Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ade upon the visitor in this walk wasthat of paint. It seemed unreal thatthere could be so much paint in the worldand so many swearing colors. But itceased to be a dream, and they wei^e taken,back into the hard practical world, Avhen,as they turned the corner, Irene pointedout her favorite sign: Silas Lapham, m ineral Office. The artist said, a couple of days afterthis morning, that he had enough of it. Of course, he added, it is a great plea-sure to me to sit and talk with Mrs. Ben-son, while you and that prett
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ade upon the visitor in this walk wasthat of paint. It seemed unreal thatthere could be so much paint in the worldand so many swearing colors. But itceased to be a dream, and they wei^e taken,back into the hard practical world, Avhen,as they turned the corner, Irene pointedout her favorite sign: Silas Lapham, m ineral Office. The artist said, a couple of days afterthis morning, that he had enough of it. Of course, he added, it is a great plea-sure to me to sit and talk with Mrs. Ben-son, while you and that pretty girl w^alkup and down the piazza all the evening;but Im easily satisfied, and two eveningsdid for me. So that much as Mr. King was charmedwith Atlantic City, and much as he Ie-gretted not awaiting the arrival of theoriginals of the tin-types, he gave in tothe restlessness of the artist for otherscenes; but not before he had impressedMrs. Benson with a notion of the delights,of Newport in July. [to be continued.] GOING DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS. BY PHIL NE of the deliglit-ful experienceswliicli I begrudg-eantiquity (which,l)y-the-way, ap-pears to me tohave liad a veryunfair share ofthe fun and ex-^-^r- citement of life) is that of havingseen the first mantrying to navig^ate the first boat. Howhe got astraddle a h)g, and it slippedround and got away from under him, andhow he then flattened the top of the logand sat on it, and how he eventuallyhollowed out the log and got complacent-ly inside it, must have been sufficientlydiverting. But when he came to experi-ments in progression, his procedure musthave been infinitely amusing. He w^as no doubt jeered at by the oldfolk as a good-for-nothing with his new-fangled notions and scatter-brain pro-jects. Wading, they said, had alwaysbeen good enough for them, and for theirfathers—who were no fools—before them,and they did not see what young peoplewanted with boats. Besides, how was hegoing to keep a boat right side up ?
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