Some one lent him a drawing of a head to copy; he returned his copy to the owner instead of the original and the deception was not noticed, but the boy talking and laughing about it with one of his companions it was found out.

Many people compared the two and found no difference in them, for besides the perfection of the drawing, Michael Angelo had smoked the paper to make it appear of the same age as the original.

This brought him a great reputation.( 10) VII.

Now drawing one thing and now another, the boy had no fixed plan or method of study.

It happened one day that Granacci took him to the gardens of the Medici at San Marco.