VENICE and was generally mule,
it
One day
unruly.
took the bit between
its
teeth
as IK- mounted his and ran with him pell-
mell, right through the village and straight int.. his rival's His startled enemy, revolver in hand, shop. about
to shoot, his
me
when Graham with
great presenee of mind thrust into his pocket, pulled out a dollar, and said: "< a pound of sugar!" When the enemy f..und a rival
hand
transformed into a customer before
appeased and they became
his eyes, his
wrath
firm friends.
When Graham
started out from Rome on a sketching tour for the summer, he never decided beforehand where he was going, but would board a train and \\henever thev stopped he would take a look at the landscape, and if it
seemed paintable he would get out and perhaps spend the whole summer there. In the course of time he turned up in New York and brought with him all his art accumulations of many years pictures, tapestries, rugs, and what all for sale. He had not, many good things, among them a small and excellent example of Tiepolo, who was just then being discovered by connoisseurs, after
a
long sln-p,
and becoming the fashion. As I wanted to help Graham along, I told him that I might find him a purchaser for this mentioned picture, for which he asked a hundred dollars. it to Francis Lathrop and told him that Graham would take two hundred and fifty for it. Lathrop was delighted with it, thought it very cheap, and took it at that price; so I felt I had done pretty well for Graham. C. C. ColeI
man bought
one of his rugs for a small price and sold it for thousands, but with his usual generosity lie shared his profit with Graham. Having sold his "roba," Graham onild no longer keep away from Italy. The last I heard of him was in Gipri, where his old friends Vedder and Coleman looked out for