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THE SHIPWRECK ON THE TIN ISLANDS.
'Blue and red,' said Jane softly, 'make purple.' 'Not always they don't,' said Cyril, 'it has to be crimson lake and Prussian blue.

If you mix Vermilion and Indigo you get the most loathsome slate colour.' 'Sepia's the nastiest colour in the box, I think,' said Jane, sucking her brush.
They were all painting.

Nurse in the flush of grateful emotion, excited by Robert's border of poppies, had presented each of the four with a shilling paint-box, and had supplemented the gift with a pile of old copies of the Illustrated London News.
'Sepia,' said Cyril instructively, 'is made out of beastly cuttlefish.' 'Purple's made out of a fish, as well as out of red and blue,' said Robert.

'Tyrian purple was, I know.' 'Out of lobsters ?' said Jane dreamily.