e net result. It is a good deal more than the picture is
worth, but then, if people will go on being so unreasonable
in their tastes, I suppose you will have to go on profiting
by it. Van and I went up to-day to take a last look at it.
You can't paint much, old man, but after living with that
picture a year, and knowing all that it means, it wasn't
quite easy to part with it.

"Well, times are some better. Van made a comic series of
some fellows running a paper, and sold it to 'Dawn.' It was
ripping! I am just finishing a story on the subject for the
'Decade.' They are going to have you illustrate it. The
Colonel is well on with his Egyptian articles.

"Van says, when you can't go any place else, come home and
be forgiven. As ever,

"PERNY.

"P.S. Barrifield was just in, and sends you his 'best.' And
now, listen! He has disposed of the lists and good will of
the 'Whole Family' to--whom do you think? Why, to Frisby, of
course, who, in return, will fill out our subscriptions with
his new paper, entitled

"'THE ROAD TO FORTUNE.'"

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