The
POTTER and
The CLAY
A ROMANCE of TODAY
By
MAUD HOWARD PETERSON
ILLUSTRATED BY
CHARLOTTE HARDING
LOTHROP
PUBLISHING COMPANY
BOSTON
COPYRIGHT,
1901,
By
LOTHROP
PUBLISHING
COMPANY.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL
Published May 7, 1901.
6th Thousand, June 11, 1901.
10th Thousand, July 19, 1901.
13th Thousand, Aug. 16, 1901.
Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith, Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
M. C. P.
and
M. T. C.
WHOSE LIVES
REVEAL THE
POTTER'S TOUCH
AUTHOR'S NOTE
The comparativelyunknown renderingof the verse from theRubáiyát of Omar Kháyyám,quoted on the succeedingpage, is to be found in thefirst edition of Fitzgerald'stranslation of the Persianpoem.
"For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day,I watch'd the Potter thumping his wet clay:And with its all-obliterated TongueIt murmur'd—'Gently, Brother, gently, pray!'"