The Pedler Of Dust Sticks - Softcover

Follen, Ms Eliza Lee Cabot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1508557802 ISBN 13: 9781508557807

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1923

Synopsis

One day I went to visit a friend, a lady, who came from Hamburg, in Germany. I was much pleased with a portrait which was hanging up in her room, and I was particularly struck by the ornamental drawings with which the picture was surrounded. They consisted of whip handles, canes, piano keys, mouth-pieces for wind instruments, all sorts of umbrellas, and many more things, of every sort, made of cane and whalebone. The arrangement was so ingenious, the designs so fanciful, and the execution so good, that nothing could be prettier. But what of course was of the most importance, was the face and head that they were meant to ornament. "What a benevolent, what a beautiful face!" I said. "Who is it?" "My father," the lady replied; "and he is more beautiful than the picture, and he is still more kind than he looks there." "What is the meaning of all these bits of bamboo and these little canes, so fancifully arranged around the picture?" I asked. "These little sticks," she replied, "tell the story of my father's success, and of the beginning of his greatness. He began his noble and honorable life as a little Pedler of Dust Sticks."

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 1923
• ISBN 10: 1508557802
• ISBN 13: 9781508557807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 26