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so much as sharpened her pencil or chose her block. She
observed that if she knew what was inside of it, she might
then, and only then, be able to do justice to the outside. This
struck me as true of so many other things besides Trotty-
books, that we invited the engraver to our house to stay a
year, in hopes that we might learn something else from her
as wise as that. So far, she has not thought of anything
quite equal to it.
Here is the book.