omp'ny iv Manchester. At th' las' public sale,
it was sold f'r thirty dollars. Misther Higbie has also purchased
th' cillybrated Schmartzmeister Boogooroo, wan iv th' mos' horrible
examples iv this delightful painther's style. He is now negotyatin'
with th' well-known dealer Moosoo Mortheimer f'r th' intire output
iv th' Barabazah School. Yisterdah in a call on th' janial dealer,
th' name iv th' cillybrated painther Mooney was mintioned. "How
manny pitchers has he painted?" "Four hundherd and forty-three
thousan' at ilivin o'clock to-day," says th' dealer. "But four
hundherd thousan' iv thim ar-re in America." "Get th' r-rest iv
thim f'r me," says th' connysoor. "What did ye say th' gintleman's
name was?" We ondershtand that Misther Mooney has had to put in
two new four-deck machines to meet th' ordhers, which include
thirty green an' mauve haystacks, forty blue barns or childher at
play, an' no less thin ninety riprisintations iv mornin' at sea,
moonlight avenin', flock iv sheep, or whativer ye may call thim.'

"An' whin he comes home, he hangs thim in his house, so that his
frinds can't turn around without takin' off a pasthral scene on
their coats, an' he pastes th' price on th' frame, an' whin he
dies, he laves his pitcher to some definceless art museem. An'
there ye ar-re.

"So I tell ye, Hinnissy, if I was a young an' ambitious American
painther, I'd go to Europe. Whin Hannigan was over there, he met
a young man that painted that fine head iv Murphy that looks so
much like Casey that hangs in Schwartzmeister's back room. 'Ar-re
ye still at th' art?' says Hannigan. 'I am,' says th' young man.
'How does it go?' asks Hannigan. 'I've more thin I can do,' says
th' young man. 'Since steel rails got so high, I've had to hire
an assistant. Ye see, I didn't get on in Chicago. Me "Bridgepoort
in a Fog" was th' on'y pitcher I sold, an' a sausage mannyfacthrer
bought that because his facthry was in it. I come over here, an'
so's me pitchers will have a fair show, I sign annywan's name ye
want to thim. Ye've heerd iv Michael Angelo? That's me. Ye've
heerd iv Gainsborough? That's me. Ye've heerd iv Millet, th' boy
that painted th' pitcher give away with th' colored supplimint iv
th' Sundah Howl? That's me. Yis, sir, th' rale name iv near ivry
distinguished painther iv modhren times is Remsen K. Smith. Whin
ye go home, if ye see a good painther an' glazier that'd like a
job as assistant Rimbrandt f'r th'