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RECREATION 



BLUE JAYS. 



thirteen, does not win 

 a prize, but according 

 to the published agree- 

 ment he gets a dollar 

 for his picture and we 

 want to call attention 

 to his powers of ob- 

 servation. Any coun- 

 try boy who notes the 

 rabbit tracks in the 

 snow will say that 

 Ernest has really seen 

 such tracks and re- 

 membered them, too. 

 See how the little fel- 

 low has made the 

 shadows of the dogs, 

 trees, log and stumps 

 all fall in the same di- 

 rection, and any artist 

 will tell you that his 



By Henry J. Hall, age 15. 



older pupils are often guilty 

 of making the light shine in 

 two or three directions in the 

 same composition. By the 

 length of the hound one might 

 suppose it to be some new 

 breed of dog, but even this 

 fault is an effort on the little 

 artist's part to cover the im- 

 pression of a dog with its legs 

 extended just before it gathers 

 them under its body for a fresh 

 leap. 



The drawing is unconscious- 

 ly humorous and indeed comic, 

 but do not laugh at it unless 

 you can do better yourself. 

 What we like about that dog 

 is the evidence of honest effort 

 which marks its every line, 

 also its evident originality of 

 conception and design. 



The pen drawing by J. W. 

 Randall, Jr., shows better 

 handling perhaps than any of 

 the others and also less origin- 

 ality. We do not mean by this 

 that it is a conscious copy of 

 any other picture, but that it 

 looks as if the person drawing 

 it was an old hand at pen 

 work, and being an old hand 



THE CHASE. 



By Ernest P. Linstrum, age 13. 



