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Excerpt from Eli Perkins (at Large): His Sayings and Doings The literary part of this book may not be very nice, but the cover is pretty and the pictures are life-like. The picture of my Uncle Consider on the first page is considered a good likeness. I presume the reader recognizes the broad, massive, thick Perkins skull. To get that soft, sweet expression of the countenance in my uncle's picture, I - I, sat for it myself. I often sit for the artists when they want to produce their masterpieces. I sit for all kinds of pictures - landscapes, animals, marine views, and - The last picture I sat for was a farm-yard scene. It represented a "pious farmer feeding his geese." Henry Ward Beecher he sat for the farmer, while I sat for the rest of the picture. I am a great artist in my way. I drew all the pictures in this book - drew 'em in a lottery. Besides drawing nice pictures, I'm studying now so as to draw hundred dollar checks and drafts such as Jay Cooke drew and Daniel Drew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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