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-114- Although the mother £ income was extremal/ modest, he made no attempt to find work* There is floae evidence that he rent to a Munich art &ehool for ft short tino during this period * Host of his time irafl evidently apBnt in loafing Around J3nd daubing paints find • wflter col ore. He tool: Ion*-; wclfcP into the hills, supposedly to •r -i • paint, but i t is reported •that he was aeen there delivering speeches t& the rooke of the country tide in P, most energetic tone of In October, 1607, he we&t to Vienna to prflpFLro for the State enuiiafitlons for admission ae student to the of Art. He qualified for admission, to the einflination but failed + - • to he flceepted AS n 3tu4*ut, On the fir at dry of the eKaminntion the aesignioent WBS' "The £bqmleion Trow ParfldiBa" flnd on the sec- i • * j r ond dayi "An Episode of the Grertt Flood"* fbe conment of the eoc- . aminere was> *Too few head a1*. He returned fcoae to Litis but there is no indication that ' r - ha communicated to anytx*ty the results of tho examination. It nfiff undoubtedly A "sawe bloir to him for he tall a us hlaiaelf that he wouldn't urjdorstflnd it, "ha wnfi 3o sure he would succeed**1 At thld time his mother had already undergone An operation for cancer of the breuat. She waa filling rather rapidly nnd l i t t l e hop&.nas hold for her recoTery* She died on December £1, 1907 and waa buried on _ Christmas Eva* To preaerru a Lnut imprtselon, he sketched her on her deathbed- Adolph, according to Dr. Blpch, was completoly brokeni wIq nil mj career I have never &aan Anyone BO proetrate with grief a a Adolph Hitler." Although his si (stare cwne to Dr. Sloch a few days After the funeral .ind expreSbad themeelv^G fully, Adolph ren^laad el* h l*nt* Aft the l i t t l e group left, he enidi "I shr.ll be grateful to you , * (EB) After the funeral he stood at her gr*ve for a long JV f_ REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES