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214 able. The same day Philip burned a portfolio of sketches. Excellent as they were, he felt that it is necessary to be ordinarily human at times, and at least a generation must elapse before one can entirely dis-associate the art from the artist.

"I should certainly take up aphides, if I were you," remarked Mr. Bartlett on his return.

Hampton Hill, 1905.