he went to frank leslie and said i'm an artist. hire me. frank leslie had a lot of personality himself. he was not unfamiliar with this kind of drama. he was not taking nast terribly seriously. theave him a task in tradition of going down to the waterfront and draw an image of the ferry the one across the river every morning. he' did nothing to kid would do it. nast went down for days. every day he would observe the background. what time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. from that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. though not always for steady people. you may already know that one of the problems with frank leslie was he often did not pay people who worked for him, which they did not like very much. he wor

he went to frank leslie and said i'm an artist. hire me. frank leslie had a lot of personality himself. he was not unfamiliar with this kind of drama. he was not taking nast terribly seriously. theave him a task in tradition of going down to the waterfront and draw an image of thery