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should do better. Nevertheless, that is It is just so in athletics. It is not the 

 a good sunset and a sunset sky is a dif- paltry mug or glittering medal one 

 ficult thing for any person to portray seeks, but the physical joy derived from 

 with a pen. In composition it is always calling all one's strength into play, 

 best to avoid having the line of the I remember of sitting in an eight- 



horizon divide the picture in halves, oared shell boat grasping the handle of 

 Mr. Randall, and in future put it up the long spoon-bladed sweep and feel- 

 higher or down lower and it will mate- ing as if I could by one pull rip the 

 rially improve the composition. whole side out of the frail craft. Why, 



Taken as a whole this contest is pleas- that feeling itself was worth a wagon- 

 ing in result and if we have stimulated load of silver mugs and a cartload of 

 any young artist to do better work we gold medals ! 

 will be satisfied with our part 

 of the contest. 



After all, it is not the prize 

 we work for, but the pleasure 

 derived from the work itself ; 

 the prize won simply means 

 that our work is so far suc- 

 cessful as to be worthy of the 

 commendation of others. No 

 real sportsman goes afield 'for 

 a big bag of harmless quail, 

 but for the delight of tramping 

 the stubble fields and watching 

 the wonderful instinct of his 

 bird dogs and of testing his 

 own skill on difficult shots. 



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THE FIRST SNOW. 

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By J. IV. Randall, Jr., age 18 



