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Show Ydilllkr'a Tlrlur.. On one occnslou whin tho nrtlst Parker had been painting it portrait of Charlea Bumncr, VVhittlcr caiiio io Chestnut street mid said to Mrs. H irgi nt : "I'rlend Wlzalieth. wilt thee go with mo to see Friend Parker's picture of Charlcsr" "I should bo very glad to," the an-wcred. an-wcred. "Wilt theogothls morning?" he asked, and nim her assenting th.y sit off for tho studio When they arrited they examined ex-amined the jiortrnit of Sumner, but Whlttler seemed to Mrs. Sargent to 1m preoccupied and to be In hasto to call her attention to comcthlng else. In u moment ho eaidt "Friend I'arkor, where Is tho othcrt" Tho artist turned around nn cuiel.nnd there w as a portrait of Whlttler himself. Tho ioitwas a. pleased as a lynt Mrs. Sargent's surprise, and us sho had not et en known of his sitting sho was naturally natu-rally not n little, astonished. 1 la was like n (.cnial comrado in his fun, aud, Although Al-though ho was naturally grat o and so date, thcro was In him u incut beautiful and gonial humor nnd u ectness, liko the color and perfumo of tho inn) Sower under the grayncss of tho leaves In the spring. Arlo Hates in Chicago Tribune. |