Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

HOWARD PYLE: 'A CHRONICLE
your talents is perfectly safe, barring any dispensation of
Providence, and I should be perfectly willing to trust the
future of any of my daughters to you and would do so
without hesitation, and in saying that I say all that I can
say.' He said that it was not likely that 'The House' would
dispense with my services, but that even if they did I could
make a better living in all likelihood than if I worked
entirely for them."~
-After this encouraging opinion from Mr. Parsons,
Howard Pyle started in to work with redoubled energy.
Everything that could possibly strengthen his position he
did; pictures, many of them the best that he had done thus
far, were completed in much less time than it had formerly
taken him; expeditions to neighboring points of interest were
planned-the New Brunswick one would have carried him
too far from Rehoboth-that they might provide material
for new articles. It occurred to him that it might be well
to have two good strings to his bow, that it would be prudent
to make his relations with Scribner's somewhat more intimate than they had been of late. On September 16th he
wrote to Miss Poole:
"I'm just teetotally tired out and that's a fact-and
cross-ye Gods! but ain't I cross! I have just been to New
York, which accounts for the milk in the cocoanut. Yes,
I've been in New York attending to-our business, may I
say? I did not feel entirely satisfied in going it blind by
coming up to Stroudsburg, writing an article and running
the chance of its being accepted, so I thought I would run
on this morning and see the houses as to whether either of
them would like. to have such an article. As I am 'in a manner cutting loose from Harpers, I thought 'it the best plan
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