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Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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eir sittings, and on a certain occasion oneof the countesss dogs, a rather savage, ill-tempered animal, coming into the room, foundthe newly finished portrait of one of his com-panions standing on the floor. Barking furi-ously, he rushed excitedly to it, prepared for aviolent battle, when, seeing his mistake, he stoodquite still with astonishment, staring at the pic-ture, unable to understand why his friend shouldbe there and yet not offer to play or fight.Still later, Mme. Ronner almost entirely gave established her reputation and placed her, evenin Paris, on a level with the great specialistEugene Lambert. It is quite a revelation to seehow many different expressions Mme. Ronnerspussies have. She never makes the mistakeof giving them a human expression, as so manypainters do : they are always cats, but so variedthat it makes one think that each kitten is adistinct individual in its way, and not at all tobe judged and treated by one general rulewhich must apply to the whole cat race.
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A QUIET NAP. up the painting of dogs, and devoted all herattention to cats, whose restless playfulnessmakes them such difficult as well as such fas-cinating subjects. But Mme. Ronners won-derful quickness of observation enabled her tocatch every trick and expression of these littleanimals, at once so frolicsome, so active, and sodifficult to picture with the brush — and yetwhich she portrayed with, as one critic humor-ously says, a care that might kill a cat.It is her paintings of cats especially that has Every one of my readers, I am sure, would becharmed could he or she have looked into Mme.Ronners beautiful, sunny studio as I saw it.There the walls were covered with paintings ofold cats and young cats, big cats and little cats,sleeping cats and waking cats ; and on the floor,darting in and out among the chairs and easels,springing from the tables and playing bo-peepwith one another behind the portieres, were allkinds of live cats. These favored pussies lived in Mme. Ronners PUSSY

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