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The audience entire seemed pleased -- indeed / _Extremely_ pleased. And little Maymie, freed / From her task of instructing, ran to show / Her wondrous colored picture to and fro / Among the company.
"And how comes it," said / Some one to Mr. Hammond, "that, instead / Of the inventor's life you did not choose / The _artist's? _ -- since the world can better lose / A cutting-box or reaper than it can / A noble picture painted by a man / Endowed with gifts this drawing would suggest" -- / Holding the picture up to show the rest.