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AN ANGLER AT LARGE

matters hitherto unsuspected. I can now believe that trees are Vandyke Brown and Cobalt Blue and all the other colours which my master mentions. If only there should be an Intense Blue kind! I must ask him.

My Vandyke Brown has given out. Query? Am I sufficiently adept to substitute for it my Scarlet Madder Alizarin?

I had always believed the cow to be a very nearly stationary beast. But a zoetrope is less active.

Tree roots are better painted, covered with long grass, especially the root of beeches. I wonder with what long grass would be better covered when one paints it.

It seems that if there is no red harp-string of the required thickness, purple lake applied to a yellow one does the trick.