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Show PAT WAS PIJ?7.LED: fo )Vn Not roMnil mi tho Dutlert nt su ArtUt's Mnilel. Sumo years ago a rlsss in tlio San rruueisco ait school was startludhv 1 the Midden tippciiiaucc In IU midst of a dilapidated Irishman who, with tenrs in ids eyos, begged for money enough to get hliu "it bite." The first impulse of tho presiding genius wns to roipi-st him to move on. Hut his picturesque qualities suggested that lie might be given n ohanco to I to earn his supper by slttingnsu model, "Sit down," bitld tlio Instruotor, kindly. kind-ly. -"If yii'n will penult tliem young Indies to paint you, wo will pay you four bits. Wlint do you say?" "Av fli'l let 'em what?" Mild tho beggar, beg-gar, with a puzzled look In his fnce. "J'nlnl youl I'ulnt youl It won't take very long." "lledad! 1 want tho four bits bad enough," he returned, nf tor a moment's reduction, "and I'll lsi very glad to let tlis young ladle paint me, if yo'll tell mo how Oi'nj to get (be paint oft" after they arc throti-'li n Itli ma."' Consck Suliltora. " k The Cossack .oilier ir. tho wlntri" tbno is obliged to sacrifice every other . consideration to that of tvMhtlng tlio i deadly cold of tho steppfs. There is a , belief among them 0 at their eutranco to heaven will bo rnsicr It they are personally el'un. so that nsciupulotts i toilet is made before any ohanco of nn . encounter, but this urittnos is not apparent ap-parent nt first glnnco, for they aro r bundled up In great coats of sheopskln or goatskin, with a grout pointed hood. . Clumsy mittens conceal thoir hnnds, and wisps of straw are bound around " thoir feet. Tho olllcer looks oxnetly 8 like tho prl ate. Tho Cossacks mitda i? their first cniupaigii with Htikslau sol-u sol-u dlers In 1038. Thu Cotsaeks now In thu 0 Ilusstan army uuinbor 10,448, exehnlvo of those Incorporated with the field troops). |
