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THE RIVAL ARTISTS by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY

First Line: THIS IS THE WAY ELIZABETH DRAWS
Last Line: WHEN SHE IS OLDER!
Subject(s): CHILDREN; DRAWING; SCHOOLS; TEACHING & TEACHERS; CHILDHOOD; STUDENTS;

THIS is the way Elizabeth draws.
Isn't it funny?
@3That's@1 a girl, she says, and she says that @3this@1
Is our white bunny!
Elizabeth's six and goes to school,
She makes the letter
"A" all right, but her "B's" like this
And her "C's" no better—
She makes a house stand on its steps
Without a cellar,
And doesn't attend to me at all
When I want to tell her
That houses never stand on steps
(Or almost never).
She just goes on and makes a pig,
The queerest ever!
The only things that she can draw
Are pumpkin faces,
And even then the noses go
In wrongest places.
Now I @3can@1 draw. But teacher says
I shouldn't scold her,
@3Perhaps@1 she'll draw as well as me
When she is older!



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