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Show Art Long, but Doesn't Pay One French painter who has exhhV Ited for many years at the salons and has acquired considerable reputatloa recently performed the duty, incumbent incum-bent on all citizens, of declaring hl income for the last year. A few daya later he received a polite letter from-his from-his tax collector in which the official! expressed surprise that a master of such talent did not derive a larger Income In-come from his work. The artist's reply re-ply was brief and to the point. Ha wrote : "I am just as surprised as you are." |