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MY INTRODUCTION TO ART, AND ACQUAINTANCES GREAT AND SMALL IN.
THE LENNESTRASSE.
The Drakes mentioned in my sister's journal are the family of the sculptor, to whom Berlin and many another German city owe such splendid works of art.
He was also one of our neighbours, and a warm friendship bound him and his young wife to my mother.

He was kind to us children, too, and had us in his studio, which was connected with the house like the other and larger one in the Thiergarten.

He even gave us a bit of clay to shape.

I have often watched him at work for hours, chattering to him, but happier still to listen while he told us of his childhood when he was a poor boy.