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They Were a Hard Looking Set
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Frederic Remington
(American, 1861 - 1909)
They Were a Hard Looking Set
Ink on paper
1887
10 1/8 × 12 15/16 in. (25.7 × 32.9 cm)
89.7
Gift of Catherine Auchincloss, 1989
Not on view
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"From an upper snow platform to which the hard blocks were thrown, a second man heaved them over the bank."
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Plate #2 | Poor Tom began to whine and shake | When with his spells the Wizard bound him | And set on him a monstrous snake | Which coiled its ugly self around him.
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ca. 1915
Plate #1 | While nodding in his hard old chair | Tom Tompkins had a dream most shocking. | The Wizard Tumblebug came there | And frightened him with laughter mocking.
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Plate #25 | And now -- 'Tis hard to grasp the fact -- | The Snake with extra-ordinary | Good nature, does a clothes-line act | To please the plump Do-mesti-cary.
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Plate #6 | The burly brute of vicious breed | Which follows is not hard to label. | It is the Wall-eyed Hex-a-pede | With legs from someone's parlor table.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915