Show Ruskin As a Bricklayer Ruskin thinks a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian would have been interested in in the foreman of the housing scheme at Treeton near Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield field who won a wager of t 10 by laying bricks in an hour Half my power po of ascertaining facts of any kind connected with the art declared declared declared de de- Ruskin lies in in my stern habit of doing the thing with my own hand until I know its difficulties He worked at carpentry until he could take an even cven shaving six feet long off off offa a a board at house painting long enough to feel the masters master's superiority superiority superiority super super- in the use of a blunt brush But ut the trowel baffled him This he found impossible to wield In in fashion unless unless un- un less he devoted himself entirely to the bricklayers bricklayer's craft and gave up all hope of my future literary career career career- Halifax Chronicle |