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like, and rich in colour, — altogether a masterly sketch ; 

 but what attracted their attention most, and gave them 

 most pleasure, were the nails in their father's shoes. 



One of the lads asked Mr. Haag : " It costs a great 

 deal of money, does it not, to have one's portrait taken ?" 

 As he no longer had much time for sketching, and was 

 besides pretty well supplied with studies of figures, he 

 answered, " Oh, certainly, a very great deal ;" and hoped 

 thus to get rid of him. After a time he returned and 

 said, "Mind, I would not care about paying a fair 

 price. Fd stand a good sum for the picture : now I'll 

 tell you what, I wouldn't mind giving a crown ["* 



But it was getting late, so I took my leave of the 

 party, who crowded round me, and begged me to come 

 soon again. 



The moon was now up, and lighted the pointed gables 

 and the paintings on the house-fronts. All was still in 



* The story that Catlin relates of the Indian who was laughed at by the 

 rest of his tribe because he was painted in profile, and was therefore only 

 " half a man," is not more amusing than many an incident the artist will 

 sometimes meet with in civilized Europe. Mr. Haag once saw a hand- 

 some young person sitting before the door of a little inn and playing the 

 cithern. The youth presented so picturesque a figure, that Mr. Haag 

 wished to make a sketch of him. The lad agreed to the proposition. 

 Next day however he refused. He ivas afraid, he said, his comrades 

 tvould ridicule him if he tvere to be painted. At last, when all his scruples 

 were overcome, he would fain put on his Sunday clothes instead of 

 sitting in his shirt- sleeves, and with his hair curling about his forehead. 

 Finally these difficulties were successfully combated, and when the pic- 

 ture was finished he was mightily pleased with his appearance, so much 

 so indeed that he wanted to keep the drawing for himself. He argued 

 besides that it must be his. He had sat for it, how then could the artist 

 claim it ? Moreover it was his face, it must therefore belong to him, 

 and not to another. To end the dispute Mr. Haag, with his usual good- 

 nature, promised to paint him again, and this time just as he liked, as 

 a present for his sweetheart. He accordingly came, but was no longer 

 the same being as before. He had put on a long coat that reached to 

 his heels, had wetted his hair and plastered it close to his head, and 



