"But if you and Bertram want to get the real opinion of this crowd, you should go and stand near one of his pictures five minutes.

As a sort of crazy--quilt criticism it can't be beat." "I know," laughed Bertram.

"I've done it, in days long gone." "Bertram, not really ?" cried Billy.
"Sure! As if every young artist at the first didn't don goggles or a false mustache and study the pictures on either side of his own till he could paint them with his eyes shut!" "And what did you hear ?" demanded the girl.
"What didn't I hear ?" laughed her lover.

"But I didn't do it but once or twice.

I lost my head one day and began to argue the question of perspective with a couple of old codgers who were criticizing a bit of foreshortening that was my special pet.