From a bench in our square (1922)

Author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English

FROM A BENCH IN
OUR SQUARE
A PATRONESS OF ART
PETER (flourish-in-red) Quick (flourish-ingreen)
Banta (period-in-blue) is the style
whereby he is known to Our Square.
Summertimes he is a prop and ornament of
Coney, that isle of the blest, whose sands he
models into gracious forms and noble senti
ments, in anticipation of the casual dime or
the munificent quarter, wherewith, if you have
low, Philistine tastes or a kind heart, you have
perhaps aforetime rewarded him. In the off
season the thwarted passion of color possesses
him; and upon the flagstones before Thornsen
s Elite Restaurant, which constitutes his
canvas, he will limn you a full-rigged ship in
two colors, a portrait of the heavyweight cham
pion in three, or, if financially encouraged, the
Statue of Liberty in four. These be, however,
concessions to popular taste. His own pre-......Read more