aking- His Turn.
It is an irreverent impulse of the youthful soul to yield to wicked gl-cc when an older person is taken to task by some one who has a right to scold him. An instance of this nature comes from the English Life School of the Royal Academy, which was devoted to the study of the human figure from models. Some one of the Royal Academicians always sat with the pupils the prescribed two hours, rarely drawing, oftener reading.
One nistht Sir Edwin Land=eer was visitor, and as he sat busily reading, a very old gentleman in list slippers, with an eartrumpet under his arm, shuffled into the school. This was John Land^eer, the father of Sir Edwin. His son, book in hand, rose to meet him.
"You are not drawing, then; why don't you draw?" said the old gentleman in a loud voice.
"Don't feel inclined,' 7 shouted the son down the trumpet.
"Then you ought to feel Inclined. That's a nno figure ; get out j-our paper and draw." "Haven't got any paper," shouted the
son. "What's that book?" asked the father. "Oliver Twist '" in a voice loud enough to have been heard across the square. "Is it about art?"
"No; it's about Oliver Twist." "Let me look at it. Ha! it's some of Diekens's nonsense. I see. You'd much
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Otago Witness, Issue 2669, 10 May 1905, Page 77
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223aking- His Turn. Otago Witness, Issue 2669, 10 May 1905, Page 77
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