Excerpt from Slow and Sure: The Story of Paul Hoffman, the Young Street-Merchant She came up and looked over his shoulder. He had been engaged in copying a humorous picture from the last page of Harper's Wee/z ly. It was an ambitious attempt on the part of so young a pupil, but he had succeeded re markably well, reproducing with close fidelity the grotesque expressions of the figures intro duced in the picture.