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"I can't get him right, somehow," the young sculptor said, but he looked tenderly at the little figure of the man he was modelling in plasticine, as if, despite its very obvious defects, he found something to admire in his creation.
"Wants stiffening, doesn't he? " I suggested. "Couldn't you put a wire or something up his legs and back?"