“Very well,” said Miss Anne; “then we will both draw the well.”
“So we will,” said Lucy; “but, Miss Anne, you must tell me how. I don’t know how to draw, myself.”
Miss Anne gave Lucy some instructions, according to her request. She told her that she must mind the shape of the things more than anything else. “All depends upon the proportions,” said Miss Anne.
“What is proportion?” said Lucy. “Royal told me something about it, but I could not understand him very well.”
“Suppose you look over me a few minutes, and see how I do it,” said Miss Anne.
Lucy liked this proposal very much; and she stood very still, for some time, while Miss Anne, with her paper upon her book, and her book upon her knee, began to make her drawing, talking all the time as follows:—
“First, there is the post; I will draw that first. I must make it look just as long upon the paper as it does in reality. And do you think it stands quite upright?”
“No,” said Lucy, “it leans.”
“Which way does it lean?” asked Miss Anne.
“It leans towards the well, I think,” said Lucy.