Show MISHAPS TO GREAT PAINTER Verestchagln Did Wonderful Work with Mutilated Hand A group of war correspondents were talking about the unhappy Russian painter Vorcstclmgln Did you ever notice hits right hand 1 one paid Indeed yos said another How deformed It was It seemed Incapable of creating thoso grim pictures Vorostclingln resumed the first correspondent onco held up his right hand before me with a sad smile The thumb was gone A leopard bo said bit my thumb to the bonnIt had to bo amputated The middle finger stuck straight out ho could not bend It A bullet once passed through this finger leaving It good for nothing ho said Then he moved the hand about with an odd stilt motion Several of the small bones ho explained wore shattered in a fall from a pony on thn steppes The muscles have been stiff over since Vqrostchnglns right hand endured much before in the end it sunk in the cold sea but It never lost Its cunning with tho brush |