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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



MR. PERRINE AT HIS TEMPORARY HOME, "DEEP GLEN," HIGH RIDGE. 



$3 he had a suit of good clothes and a 

 six-shooter. He beat his way to Gal- 

 veston by the boxcar route and was de- 

 layed by being thrown bodily into the 

 desert by a train crew. 



"On reaching Galveston he secured 

 the job of helping the steward on one 

 of the New York boats. He made an 

 acquaintance on board who told him a 

 hard luck story, and on the boat's ar- 



MR. PERRINE'S SON. 

 Photograph by Professor John J. Schoonhoven, 

 P.iooklyi . New York. 



rival asked for the loan of his good 

 suit of clothes while he paid a visit to 

 his family. Perrine lent him the suit 

 and the man disappeared. The artist 

 was left in New York City with a pair 

 of overalls, a tattered coat and a six- 

 shooter. 



"He raised $1.50 by pawning the re- 

 volver and secured a?job as a plasterer. 

 A strike was in progress at the time 

 and his duty was to keep strikers from 

 entering the building where he was em- 

 ployed. He had to stand in a doorway 

 and dodge the bricks and stones that 

 the strikers threw at him. Until his 

 first week was finished lie had to live 

 on his $1.50 and sleep where he could. 

 Empty wagons were a convenient ref- 

 uge and sometimes he found straw in a 

 hospitable stable. 



At Cooper Institute — A Target For 

 Students. 

 "On ( )ctober 8 he appeared at the 

 Cooper Institute, lean as a rail, wear- 

 ing a Texas hat and with long hair fall- 

 ing over his shoulders. He created a 

 sensation at his first lesson and was 

 the target for the gibes of his fellow 

 students. They did not gibe him long, 

 however, for his cowboy training 

 showed itself. 



"Discouragements followed thick and 

 fast. Mr. Perrine and the school had 

 divergent ideas upon what was vital 

 for an artist. He decided to join a 

 second school, where he found himself 

 almost equally restricted. He then de- 

 cided to leave school and to continue 

 his work by himself, and it was on a 

 chance excursion that he drifted to the 



