And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, July 24, 2022
A Man of Gigantic Mould Broke Out of the Tangled Labyrinth of a Small Swamp, Emerging Into an Opening, illustration by N.C. Wyeth for James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer (1925)
This book with these illustrations was around me when I grew up. The illustrations fascinated me. The book itself was difficult reading, even though I was a very advanced reader as a child.
Interestingly enough, the main figure in this illustration is "Hurry Harry," who is something of a minor villain, or at least a rather unsympathetic character, being a good-looking but violent, arrogant, and selfish young man. The hero of the story is Natty Bumppo, who is the background figure. -Grey Fox
Why does he hold a catcher's mitt?
ReplyDeleteAll I see is a couple thousand dollars of lumber per tree...
ReplyDeleteThis book with these illustrations was around me when I grew up. The illustrations fascinated me. The book itself was difficult reading, even though I was a very advanced reader as a child.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, the main figure in this illustration is "Hurry Harry," who is something of a minor villain, or at least a rather unsympathetic character, being a good-looking but violent, arrogant, and selfish young man. The hero of the story is Natty Bumppo, who is the background figure.
ReplyDelete-Grey Fox