Let the children illustrate the story of little Miss
Bowles playing with her dog in the park. Use charcoal, or colored
crayon, on manila paper.

=The story of the artist.= Sir Joshua Reynolds's father was a teacher
in a private school, and to this school Joshua was sent as soon as he
was old enough to study. Even when a very little boy Joshua liked to
draw. He liked it so well that it was hard for him to study in school.
He always saw so many things he wanted to draw that he could not wait
until after school, but drew them on the back of his lesson papers.
One day he drew all over his number paper, and when he handed it in
his father could not read the numbers on account of the drawing. His
father was disappointed because his son's paper did not look so neat
as the other boys', and so he wrote at the top of the sheet, "Done by
Joshua out of pure idleness."

Joshua had five brothers and sisters who liked to draw just as well as
he did, and who could all draw very much better than he could. It took
so much paper and so many pencils for all his children, that finally
the father told them they might draw on the walls of one of the halls.
The walls had been whitewashed and the children used burnt sticks for
pencils.

At first the older brothers and sisters used to help little Joshua by
guiding his hand, but he soon learned to draw as well as they. His
first drawings had been so funny that they laughed at him, but now
they praised him instead. When he was only eight years old he drew a
picture that every one praised very much. It was a picture of the
schoolhouse. When his father saw it he was so pleased that he said,
"This is wonderful!"

In the little town where Joshua lived the people had church on
Sundays, of course, and sometimes during the week. One day, Joshua
went to church. At first he sat very still, but the sermon was a long
one, and finally he grew so tired that he could not listen another
minute. He thought he would like to draw a picture of the minister,
but he had nothing to draw it on. Then he remembered that he had a
pencil in his pocket, and he could draw a picture of the minister on
his thumb nail; and that is just what he did.

The church was near the river, and after church Joshua went down to
the river bank. Finding a piece of an old sail, he carried it to a
boathouse. Here, from the picture on his thumb nail, he drew on the
piece of sail the portrait of the minister. Then he painted it, using
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