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

TH-iE l CR%.UCIBLE OF NEW YORK
"What do you home folks think about this election now?
I declare I feel fairly sick and ashamed of both parties, and
hardly know which is the worse. On the Republican party
is such a net of cheating, chicanery, meanness, usurpation,
and dishonesty, as almost to hide its former nobility. I
really think they are doing more harm to themselves by the
underhand dishonesty of their operations, than twice four
years can repair. As for the Democrats: they are, it seems
to me, scarcely if any less to blame than the others-violence, half-uttered threats of warfare and demoralization
among their lower classes-still, I do believe they show
more forbearance and better obeyance to the laws of the
Commonwealth than the Republicans, who prate so much
of their patriotism, and show their patriotism by forcing,
willy-nilly, upon South Carolina, a governor its people
don't want, and a man stained with fraud. I'm sick of the
whole thing."
"November 30, 1876.
"I finished writing the fable and story for Mrs. Dodge's
two woodcuts and took them down this morning to the office.
They paid me for my former two budgets of fables, comprising thirteen in all; for which they gave me thirty
dollars!1-a little less than two dollars and a half for each
fable. I was far from satisfied at this as thee may well
imagine, but I had to swallow it as best I could and digest
the hard case in my own inner consciousness. They rather
have me. There is no other child's magazine of any worth
in the country and my writings are essentially for children.
I try to make them as witty as I can, and at the same time
indoctrinate a small lesson. I strive to hold the lesson in
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