Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — The Wretch. [ARTICLE]

The Wretch.

One day the swell artist was passing the house of the younger one, says the Boston Globe, and the latter calleu to him: “Mr. Chrome, I have just finished two pictures, entirely different In subject, and would like to have your opinion of them.” The great man said he would be only too happy to look at them, so, ushering him into the house and opening the parlor, the owner pointed to two pictures hanging on the wall, and said: “There they are. One' picture is t of my father, copied from an old-fash'ioned ambrotype; the other is a painting of Lily Pond.” The artist, after adjusting his eye-glasses and looking carefully at the paintings a moment, turned and asked: “Which one did you say was your father, Mr. Madder?”