Nougat-Jones
secured the study of roosting sand-grouse. A more ambitious picture,
"Wolves and wapiti fighting on the steps of the Athenaeum Club," found a
purchaser at fifteen shillings.

"And now what are your plans?" asked a young man who contributed
occasional paragraphs to an artistic weekly.

"I go back to Stolpmunde as soon as the ship sails," said the artist,
"and I do not return. Never."

"But your work? Your career as painter?"

"Ah, there is nossing in it. One starves. Till to-day I have sold not
one of my sketches. To-night you have bought a few, because I am going
away from you, but at other times, not one."

"But has not some American--?"

"Ah, the rich American," chuckled the artist. "God be thanked. He dash
his car right into our herd of schwines as they were being driven out to
the fields. Many of our best schwines he killed, but he paid all
damages. He paid perhaps more than they were worth, many times more than
they would have fetched in the market after a month of fattening, but he
was in a hurry to get on to Dantzig. When one is in a hurry one must pay
what one is asked. God be thanked for rich Americans, who are always in
a hurry to get somewhere else. My father and mother, they have now so
plenty of money; they send me some to pay my debts and come home. I
start on Monday for Stolpmunde and I do not come back. Never."

"But your picture, the hyaenas?"

"No good. It is too big to carry to Stolpmunde. I burn it."

In time he will be forgotten, but at present Knopfschrank is almost as
sore a subject as Sledonti with some of the frequenters of the Nuremberg
Restaurant, Owl Street, Soho.

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