an should be standing or sitting, until it stood all finished, he
thought and worked a long, long time. His work is almost perfect, and
fine work always takes time and patience.

When busy on the Gould Shaw monument, St. Gaudens often stood on a
scaffolding ten hours at a time in the hottest summer days, not eating
anything but an apple. He was so eager over his work that he did not
want to lose a minute. But he had some fun as well. The horse he used as
a model used to get terribly tired of standing so long and would snort
and prance and paw the ground until it took several men to hold him. And
some of the negroes who posed nearly fainted when they saw St. Gaudens
make faces that looked exactly like them with just a few pinches of his
fingers on the soft clay. They thought he was in league with Satan, they
said. When you see this monument, you will notice how brave Colonel Shaw
looks, riding on his large horse, and how eagerly the colored troops
march behind him.

St. Gaudens was very fond of Phillips Brooks, the good Bishop, and
because of their friendship, his statue of Brooks at Trinity Church,
Boston, is so like the man that you almost expect to hear him speak, as
you stand before it. St. Gaudens had been to concerts with Bishop
Brooks, had heard him preach, had seen him merry and sad, knew how
unselfish he was, and how much he liked to cheer people up, and somehow
managed to make his statue tell us all these traits. There is no doubt
St. Gaudens was one of the world's great sculptors, but he would never
have been great if he had not loved his art so well that he could go
hungry, cold, and tired year after year for the sake of learning it. And
he was great because he was so determined to do his work over and over
again until he felt it was just right. He always urged students to do
the same. "You can do anything you please," he often said; "it's the
_way_ it's done that makes the difference."

Besides becoming famous, the shoemaker's son was happy and rich in the
end. He had a wife and a son who, among other books, has written a life
of his father. From this book and by the stories St. Gaudens's friends
tell of him, we know that the sculptor was a gentle, loving man who
tried to help the world to be better and wiser. It will not matter
whether it is the statue of Sherman, Logan, Lincoln, or Shaw by St.
Gaudens that you are fortunate enough to see; it will be the way any
piece of his is done which makes it so beau