“We were three days taking out even what gold and gems we could load on ourselves and our beasts, the treasure of three queen’s pardons.”
– A painting by N.C. Wyeth, illustrating a story by Stephen Vincent Benet entitled “Snake and Hawk,” which appeared in Ladies Home Journal, March, 1923. Benet wrote a letter at the time in which he said, “N. C. Wyeth is doing two color illustrations to ‘Snake and Hawk’ … which makes me both joyous and very sore at myself that it isn’t a better story.”
