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Show TO LET He was putting the finishing touches to his picture. He had chosen a lovely old cottage for his brush, and the picture was satisfactory. No one was living in the cottage; but that did not matter, for the artist had put curtains at the windows and a thin wisp of smoke curling up from one of the stone chimneys. Presently a native came up. "That's my property," said he, pointing with his stick to the cottage. cot-tage. "So you've made a picture of it, eh? What will you be doing with it, if I might ask?" "Oh," said the artist, "I shall send it to one of the art exhibitions." "Aye! And will many folk see it?" "A good many, I expect." "They will, will they? Well, then, look here, just paint a notice-board, notice-board, will you, and make it say, 'To let for summer months'?" |