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or an apple-tree close by. Perhaps a nail may be found on which to 

 hang a bird-cage basket, some garden implements, a sieve, or article of 

 wearing apparel. If a fisherman's abode, nets, crab-pots, oars and spars 

 may be requisitioned, and, faihng all these, it will possibly afford a suit- 

 able position to place a figure, care being taken in selection of colour of 

 dress in reference to contrast. If the ugliness cannot be overcome by 



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any of these means it will be best to reject it altogether, or defer its 

 portraiture until a more fitting time, when it may be seen in shade, and. 

 in consequence, be less conspicuous. 



To recapitulate, we have noticed the most brilliant lights and shades 

 are in the foreground, gradually losing their intensity as distance increases, 

 that there is a distinction between shade and shadow, the latter being the 

 darker of the two, the intention of a good picture to tell its own story, 

 which is impossible without good arrangement of light and shade, the 

 great importance of unity in this matter to the getting rid of scattered 

 light, various proportions of light and shade in compositions, the desir- 

 ability of having more than a single spot of light and the proportionate 

 intensity and variation in siise of those added, the gathering together of 



