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admission in the Cabanel Atelier as that Master was a prime favorite with the Frenchmen. Indeed, it was rumored that he could make a brilliant student out of the dullest possible material and I afterwards saw Evidences of the correctness of this rumor. I knew nothing of Monsieur Pils, but to enter the Government school seemed imperative to me. It was reputed to be the most "voyou" of the three studio's [[studios]], and the men told awful stories of the hazing I might expect. There was an amiable camarade who never seemed to work and always had time to do a service for the "nouveaux" who needed guiding about the "quartier". "Cocky" Mansfield volunteered to take me up to Montmartre, to Monsieur Pils' private studio and translate my desire to become his pupil. It was a foggy, chilly Paris morning when we boarded the