I know I can play on that.
* * * * * As music and sculpture are the first of the arts, I may properly refer in this chapter to some facts relative to the condition of the latter in the community in which I live.

Some time ago there was an auction out at the place of Mr.Jackson, and a very handsome marble statue of William Penn was knocked down to Mr.Whitaker.He had the statue carted over to the marble-yard, where he sought an interview with Mr.Mix, the owner.

He told Mix that he wanted that statue "fixed up somehow so that 'twould represent one of the heathen gods." He had an idea that Mix might chip the clothes off of Penn and put a lyre in his hand, "so that he might pass muster as Apollo or Hercules." But Mix said he thought the difficulty would be in wrestling with William's hat.

It was a marble hat, with a rim almost big enough for a race-course; and Mix said that although he didn't profess to know much about heathen mythology as a general thing, still it struck him that Hercules in a broad-brimmed hat would attract attention by his singularity, and might be open to criticism.
Mr.Whitaker said that what he really wanted with that statue, when he bought it, was to turn it into Venus, and he thought perhaps the hat might be chiseled up into some kind of a halo around her head.
But Mix said that he didn't exactly see how he could do that when the rim was so curly at the sides.

A halo that was curly was just no halo at all.