Show PICTURE THAT WOULD LIVE study for a painter suggested in i incident in the early life of daniel webster when dnniel daniel webster was vas eight years old oil lie he saw in a country shop a cotton handkerchief with something printed on oil both sides of it ile he save gave his whole stock of hoarded boarded pennies to secure it and absorbed its contents that night with its his keen dark eyes on ills his fathers Tai hors kitchen floor by the light of the roil roaring ring chimney fire what painter will be the first to make that scene perpetual in our count rys history and art it was the constitution of the united states just then in the dawn dan of its beneficent power under the lie lead of president washington s that the new hampshire lad was then stamping on his memory ile he told the story himself in 1830 and archly said 1 I have known more or less of that document ever since forty F orty years from that winter came the grent great hayne debate but I 1 would travel farther to see a masters asters ro picture of the lad ad reading we the constitution in the rude home on the edge edga of the northern wilderness than to see healeyy He aleys great painting of the orator in the senatorial struggle against the theory and passions of secession as I 1 would go farther to see a picture of the springs of the amazon far up under the cold nolte splinters of the andes than the most adequate representation of the tha imperial rivers tropical Iro course thomas starr king |