Without a moment's reflection he counselled the mother to let the boy draw in whatsoever manner he listed, and together they went to find the young artist at his work.

In the play-room they discovered one brother reading hard at astronomy, and Ste with a penny box of water-colours painting for dear life--with his left hand.
"Now I'll show you how to paint a picture," said Ruskin, and with a piece of paper on the top of his hat and B.-P.'s penny box of paints at his side he set to work, taking a little china vase for a model.
Both the vase and the picture are now in the drawing-room of Mrs.
Baden-Powell's London house.

The result of Ruskin's advice was that B.-P.

continued to draw with his left hand, and now in making sketches he finds no difficulty in drawing with his left hand and shading in at the same time with his right.
There is an incident of his childhood which I must not forget to record.

At a dinner-party at the Baden-Powells', when Ste was not yet three years old, the guests being all learned and distinguished men, such as Buckle and Whewell, Thackeray was handing Mrs.Baden-Powell into dinner when he noticed that one of the little children was following behind.