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to those first few years - He used to stretch a canvas on a board end of an egg crate or whatever and I would sit there & try to paint with crome yellow vermillion prussian blue and two brushes such as they had in Fairfaxs wallpaper store in Geneva N.Y. 
My father told me [[strikethrough]] tall with his bare head [[/strikethrough]] with Mr Spatherly to crush a chestnut burr with his bare heel. I would have to use a hammer to do it. 
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in NY The humerous illustrations were quite known for a time
but I had to get back Earth again & farming & painting. The youthful influence is certainly powerful- In the meantime a trip to France Italy Think I was