Alfred Gockel paintings

Alfred Gockel paintings
Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings
“I have been doing something while you have been gone, Archy. Do you think you can find out what it was?”
The boy went to the bookcase and got out the books that had been touched, and opened them at the pages which had been stroked.
The mother took him in her lap, and said:
“I will answer your question now, dear. I have found out that in one way you are quite different from other people. You can see in the dark, you can smell what other people cannot, you have the talents of a bloodhound. They are good and valuable things to have, but you must keep the matter a secret. If people found it out, they would speak of you as an odd child, a strange child, and children would beintelligently, and was satisfied with the results—even a little proud of them. One day Archy said,
“Mamma, am I different from other