The Turning Point.
There died lately, aged 67, in Edinburgh, the eminent sculptor, William |Brodie. Bred a plumber andgasfitter, he went from Banff to the capital with an intense love of art, but was found one afternoon disconsolately gazing at rejected exhibits by a friend, to whom he said bitterly :
, ' High art won't keep my wife and me and the bairns, so I'll go back to the gaspipes and plumbling,' But his wife, full of pluck, said : ' * You'll be a great man yet, Willie, if ye'U tonly keep up your heart. You stick to your 'art, and I'll stick to you and the bairns, and I'll see that none of us ever come to want.'
' But he shook his head sadly. The friend t spoke a few consolatory words, and promised ;to call next day. He did so, and found all changed. A rich merchant had sent Brodie ■'money to go to Rome for two years, and had 'undertaken meanwhile to care for his family.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 29
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165The Turning Point. Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 29
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