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Show Getting Iteady for the Old Masters. A young lady came to a Boston artist ar-tist to take lessons, and after she had informed in-formed him that she expected to go abroad in three months and in that time wished to learn to copy the old master j ! in order to part ly pay her expenses it f Enroie, she added : 1 "I suppose pastels will be hard to : pack, won't they'r" i "Pastels?" ho repeated. "Are yon in-' in-' tending to make copies of the old inns- j ters in pastels?" i "Well," she answered, "that's one of I the things I wanted to a-;k you. Pastels I wouldn't have to dry, you know, and I could wear gloves so that I shouldn't get ! my fingers smutted: only I did not know whether they would puck well." The artist looked at her a moment in silent amazement and decided that she wafl not quizzing him, bat was in sober ' earnest. "I dare say pastels wonld by all means lie le?t for you," hi said, "out I do H it . give lessons in pastel. You will bar to ' find somebody else." Boston Courier. |