you to understand the rules on which they are formed; and the more you understand, and the more you learn to think of the reasons which guide your work, the better you will be able to do it.

Remember, that whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well; and therefore do not be satisfied with getting your figure nearly right. When you have been able to get it nearly, depend 3 upon it you will only have to try again, and be a

little more careful, to get it "quite" correct.

RIGHT LINES

IN THEIR RIGHT PLACES.

In this little book I am going to try to teach you to draw some of the most useful forms around us, and on which many beautiful designs are based; I hope to show you how to place a few lines together in such a way that they may look like some object, and that any person who sees the drawing may know what you meant to show.

It is very useful to be able to draw, because a picture shows you the shapes of things, and the way in which they are placed, much more plainly than any number of words could tell you, and more quickly too; for the moment you see a drawing, you can tell the shape of the object, and how all the parts of it are joined to each other, whilst to explain all about it in words, might take a page or two in a book, and even then the account might

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not describe all the parts as fully nor as simply as a drawing could do.

When you grow up, you will find that you will often require drawings. When a house is to be built, the ground has to be marked out, and this is done from a plan, or drawing; then the men have to dig out the places for the cellars and walls, and this is done from drawings; then come the walls, and the way they are to be placed, so as to form rooms; and here again drawings are wanted.

All workmen require what are called "working drawings," which are drawings of all the different parts of the thing they are to make, with all the figures marked upon them, so as to show how large every part is to be; and then they measure from these with their rule, and so get their work the right size. And even if you are not to be a workman, you will often require to have something done or made for you, and it will be very useful to know how to make a drawing to guide the workman, or to see by a drawing whether it is planned out as you wish.

I will try then, to teach you to draw, and to begin, you must practise a few of the single lines, of which we shall form all sorts of things.

Firstly, try to draw a few lines like these, and

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Vertical Lines.

you must take pains to keep them quite upright. These are called VERTICAL lines. The walls of a house are vertical. Now just think, if you were walking out and saw a house like this, would you

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not cry out, "Why, that house is falling down. because its walls are not upright?" So that you

see, you must be very careful that your lines do not slant at all. The best way to begin a line is to draw just a few light touches like this, then hold

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your paper up straight before you, and you will be able to see at once if your line is upright. If it is, you will draw over it again, so as to make a nice, firm line, but if it should not be quite right, you can easily rub it out with a piece of india-rubber.

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The next kind of line is called Hor-i-zon-tal,