56. Often, in antique and second hand stores you will find old
pieces of sculpture in either plaster or bronze. These things are usually about
a foot or so high and often are of sentimental subject matter.
57. I imagine these things are about fifty years old and
probably graced some little table of some poor interior as an imagined touch of
class. As a matter of fact, there
were two objects of this sort that my mother kept on the ledge of a window near
the front door, at the foot of the stairs.
58. There were two figures cast in plaster, one was a shepherd
and the other was a shepherdess. The shepherd was on the left of the window-sill,
and from that position he gazed longingly at the shepherdess who was two feet
away, who looked at him coyly over her shoulder.
59. They were poly-chrome sculpture, glazed in multiple colors,
but mostly pastel tints. These two figures were the only sculpture I ever came
across in my childhood excepting some full sized figures of Civil War heroes,
and a life-sized bronze of General Lafayette, down on Lafayette Street.
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