I. What is-the title of the story the passage comes from?

IV. Using the passage as a basis make up several exercises to activate the word combinations and structural patterns given below. Act as teacher and have the exercises done in class.

III. Do you think he managed to get even with his doctor?

I. What story is the passage taken from?

V. What do you think is the most rational attitude towards one's weight and dieting?

XVI

Next afternoon young Swain was shown into the big living room. The old man looked at him appraisingly.

"Sir, I'm not an artist yet," answered the young man.

"Umph?" Swain arranged some paper and crayons on the table,

"Let's try and draw that vase over there on the mantelpiece," he suggested. "Try it, Mister Ellsworth, please."

"Umph!" The old man took a piece of crayon in a shaky hand and made a scrawl. He made another scrawl and connected the two with a couple of crude lines. "There it is, young man," he snapped a grunt of satisfaction. Frank Swain was patient. He needed the five dollars. Ran an elevator at night to pay tuition fees.

"If you want to draw you will have to look at what you're drawing, sir," he said calmly.

When the art student came the following week there was a drawing on the table that had a slight resemblance to the vase.

The wrinkles deepened at the corners of the old man's eyes and he asked, "Well, what do you think of it?"

"Not bad, sir," answered the patient student. "But it's a bit lopsided'."

"By gum," old Ellsworth chuckled. "I see.The halves don't match." He added a few lines with a palsied hand and colored the open spaces blue like, a child playing with a picture book.

When the late spring sun began to cloak the fields and gardens with color, the old man executed a god-awful smudge which he called "Trees Dressed in White". It resembled a gob of salad dressing thrown violently up against the side of a house! Then he made a startling

announcement. He was going to exhibit it in the summer show at the Lathrop Gallery!

"We've got to stop him," said Mr. Ellsworth's old servant. "If the papers get hold of this, he will become a laughing-stock."

"No," admonished the doctor. "We can't interfere with him now and take a chance of spoiling all the good work that we've accomplished."

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

II. Do you remember why the old man wa* persuaded to take up art?

to suggest doing smth; to offer to do smth; to be able to do smth; to be capable of doing smth; to-persuade smb to do smth; to convince smb that; would rather; had better; to have smth done; to afford to do smth

XVII

"Would you like to go home?" I said to the kid.

"Aw, what for?" said he. "I don't have any fun at home. I hate to go to school. I like to camp out. You won't take me back home again, will you?"

"Not right away," said I. "We'll stay here in the cave awhile."

"All right!" said he. "That'll be fine. I never had such fun in all my life."

We went to bed about eleven o'clock. We spread down some wide-blankets and quilts and put the kid between us. We weren't afraid he'd run away. But he kept us awake for three long hours. At last, 1 fell into a troubled sleep, and dreamed that I had been.kidnapped and chained to a tree by a ferocious pirate with red hair.

Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of awful screams from my friend. They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs - they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars. It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak.

I jumped up to see what the matter was, The kid. was sitting on Bill's chest, with one hand twined in Bill's hair. In the other he had the sharp case-knife we used for slicing bacon; and he was industriously and realistically trying to take Bill's, scalp, according to the sentence that had been pronounced upon him the evening before.

1 got the knife away from the kid and made him lie down again. But, from that moment, Bill's spirit was broken. He again lay down on his side of the bed, but he never closed an eye again in sleep as long as that boy was with us.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

II. How did the buy happen "to be wrth the men in the cave?

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