From a Bench in Our Square

Project Gutenberg's From a Bench in Our Square, by Samuel Hopkins AdamsThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: From a Bench in Our SquareAuthor: Samuel Hopkins AdamsRelease Date: February 4, 2004 [EBook #10944]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM A BENCH IN OUR SQUARE ***Produced by Ginny Brewer and PG Distributed ProofreadersFROM A BENCH IN OUR SQUAREBYSamuel Hopkins Adams1922ContentsA Patroness of ArtThe House of Silvery VoicesHome-Seekers' GoalThe Guardian of God's AcreFor Mayme, Read MaryBarbranPlooie of Our SquareTriumphFROM A BENCH IN OUR SQUAREA PATRONESS OF ARTIPeter (flourish-in-red) Quick (flourish-in-green) Banta (period-in-blue) is the style whereby he is known to Our Square.Summertimes he is a prop and ornament of Coney, that isle of the blest, whose sands he models into gracious formsand noble sentiments, in anticipation of the casual dime or the munificent quarter, wherewith, if you have low,Philistine tastes or a kind heart, you have perhaps aforetime rewarded him. In the off-season the thwarted passion ofcolor possesses him; and upon the flagstones before Thornsen's Élite Restaurant, which constitutes his canvas, hewill limn you a full-rigged ship in two colors, a portrait of the ...