*** start of the project gutenberg ebook 1386 *** lady baltimore by owen wister to s. weir mitchell with the affection and memories of all my life to the reader you know the great text in burns, i am sure, where he wishes he could see himself as others see him. well, here lies the hitch in many a work of art: if its maker--poet, painter, or novelist--could but have become its audience too, for a single day, before he launched it irrevocably upon the uncertain ocean of pub...