Capitolo 1
FROM A BENCH IN OURS TO STRAIGHT ANGLE
FROM
Sam Hopkins Adams
1922
_Contents_
Patroness of _A of Art_
House of _The of Voices_ Argenteo
The Goal_s of _Home-seekers
_The Guardian of the Acre_ of God
_For Mayme, Legga Mary_
_Barbran_
_Plooie of Our Square_
_Triumph_
FROM A BENCH IN OURS TO STRAIGHT ANGLE
A PATRONESS OF ART
ME
Pietro (bloom-in-red) Rapid (bloom-in-green) Banta (period-in-blue)
it is the style from what he is known Our To straight angle.
He is summers a sustains and you adorn of Coney that isolates some blest,
of whom sands that he models in attractive forms and the noble feelings, in
the anticipation of the coin from ten cents casual or the munificent quarter, wherewith if
You have low tastes, Coarse or some heart of kind, you perhaps have
aforetimes compensated him/it. In the street-season the passion opposed of color
it possesses him/it; and on the pavement stone in front of the Elite of Thornsen
Restaurant that constitutes his/her cloth he will describe her a completely equipped
you send in two colors, a portrait of the champion of maximum weight in three or,
if you/he/she is financially encouraged, the Statue of the Liberty in four. These are,
however, concessions to popular taste. Its his/her own predilection is for
floral and chaste sketches of a symbolic character borne out and it exposed from
proper legends. Pietro Quick Banta is a lover of his/her art.
Full run that gives to his/her taller aspirations, he was busy one April,
day, on a lilac attentively represented with a butterfly around to turn on
on him, when he became cognizant of a worn-out vagabond of a little devil to concern
him with a sneer. Pietro Quick Banta interpreted badly this signal of interest.
"What do of yes think about _that_?" he said triumphantly, as he drew in a
puts of side-moustaches (presumably agreements for antennae) on the
butterfly.
"Rotten", it was the ready answer.
"_What_!" it said the amazed artist, while rising from his/her knees.
"Hooligan."
Pietro Quick Banta applied the tallest criticism to the little devil you/he/she is nearbyer