Suppose Sargent were painting a beautiful picture, and one of his pupils, snatching the paint-brush from him, insisted on finishing it, and spoiling ithow would he like it?

"I DON'T TELL EVERYBODY THAT, YOU INQUISITIVE TEASE, BUT FACT IS, I PUT THE STUMP OF AN OLD PAINT-BRUSH IN THE BOWL, AND SMOKE THE OILIEST TOBACCO I CAN FIND.

Thus too before the painter dares to ply Paint-brush or canvas, he is wont to write Sketches on scraps of paper, and invite Wise minds to judge his figured history.

" Bullion turned his eye upon him,a cool, gray eye, overhung by an eyebrow that seemed under perfect muscular control; for the gray wisp of hair grew pointed like a paint-brush, and had a queer motion of intelligence.

To your paint-brushes, Gustave Courbet!

"I could wreck his loveliness with one flop of my paint-brush.

He turned round, with the paint-brush in one hand and the pork-pie in the other, and became abashed, for a beautiful lady had entered the room and was evidently about to make an enquiry.

"What's that coral-colored bushy one?" "Indian paint-brush.

With shovel, or hammer, or saw, or paint-brush, he worked day by day all that summer alongside the workmen.

This done, and it was no great job, the paint-brush was set to work, and the hull was completed!

The hair in all of them was disproportionately long and very thick, so that it looked somewhat like a paint-brush.

"He will damn us, perhaps," said Ruyven, sucking his paint-brush and looking critically at his work.

He was a young man, tall and gaunt, and stood back a little way from his canvas with paint-brush held at a slope, while across it he studied the subject of his picturea grey bridge and the butt-end of a grey building, with a sign-board overtopping the autumnal willows.

In all their hours of close communion neither boy mentioned to the other the name of the little girl in the red shawl and the paint-brush pig-tails whose fitful fancy had brought on all his trouble.

His eyes were half closed in an ecstasy, and he did not turn his face toward the paint-brush pig-tails, nor give any sign that he knew of their owner's presence.