Show anecdote of tho the dutch painter he anil and steen were the closest clones friends it liua bus been asserted that miens often would touch up a picture tot for steen anil and together with lievens and aug do da you von thoy they often passed the night in drinking at steens avorn and when the boats ruin came tho the friends tram ferrea erred their meeting rud and conviviality to the nearest boar bear bonso ono no of develd nearly cost miaria his hia lifo life for very late anil and it a good goo i deal under ander tho the influx once enca of tho the liquor they had drank tho the friends started on their different ways made passing ow ono knoof of the bridges fell into the open sewer and being too loo much intoxicated to help himself intelligently telli gently being able to do nothing but cull call tor for aid canto very near enello eating it so Lappo bappe aei ried 1 that in the immediate neighborhood thero there lived ined a cobbler who was uvon oven at that late hour working awl an I 1 ilia hm wife was ilah dati fully n watch with him sho thought she bhe heard cries anoa of ond and baio bade ler hot husband stop ina ilia and ginging that they liht listen when tho the sounds becom becoming lug more distinct the rood good couple took their lamp and went into tho the street to see BOO who wanted bid aid when they emieria Alier ls in in his perilous they bloodily rescued lira and though wondering that a man so finely dressed dros sod with silver buttons on his coat should be choking in tho the mud they asked no questions ions but carried him to their homo home and when they lad had revived liin him started him bim on his bis homeward WRY way mien Ali eriel when he realized roal izod what his dan gor had been was ashamed both of hl hla adiv entaro und and the cause the that t led ica to it and fo to tell his preservers his name camo lie he however wished to allow them some boma proof of his gratitude for or their timely aid and legan began to paint for or them a picture pio taro but as aa tho the ticie firle he be could give evo to tho the work was only lna his 4 unoccupied hours his ross rosh was slow alow and it was VM nil fall two youa years before his labor was waa finished taking the picture carefully concealed lonco alad under his cloak ho he sought the cobblers cobbler a house honse whore where ho he found cal only the wita wife at home who evidently did ant nize ciza her visitor by that of 0 skillful skill lal questions lie he dis ale covered that bat though remembering the ibe of his accident the worthy couple had bad no idea of whom they lad had leea been the rescuers placing the ha picture on tibia table la he said bald in his bid gracious mannor 11 hero here madam accept this as a small token of gratitude from the unknown you so no kindly as a slated it you would rather at tiny time me tarn the picture into money 7 you hall anve only to take it to mr kraals and aad giving tho the direction he be vanished without having baring told his name the cobbler and lie lia wife showed tho the picture to several of their neighbors and even 11 they UBle I arnad ened in art doe a re I 1 it must t lo 10 yc w worth ir h a good sum sam 11 the t WO comans womans ws curiosity was excited and a slie all a ca carried tia the picture to the he jacob maso in whose family she sho hid bad previously lived he instantly lecog dazed aa hand haab and aad wondering at finding such a gom gem in the possession posse gaion of his old Ber rant questioned her as to bow she alia had obtained it and an ili heard card her singular story ile ho said baia he be himself would give a hundred tor for tho the picture but bat added generously 1 I perhaps you had bolter better tuko it to naming a well known amateur and ask him eight hundred florins florans for tho the picture he will give them tho the cobblers wife found this valuation was the correct one tradition doe not tellus tell m what the picture was which owed its existence to the unlucky consequences of a midnight rove ravel fe B mason in Har harpers pors |