150 GERTRUDE.

Miss Torrance was touched by the spirit and ambition of
the child, and from that day helped the little girl, giving her
lessons in drawing, and always talking to her of the best and
highest aims of an artist.

There was one day after her return to the city when Ger-
trude was surprised by a whole outfit of materials, and there
never was such a happy child. To-day the picture-loving
little maid is an earnest student, and among her treasures,
hidden away with her childish toys, is a box which holds her
first pictures of purple trees and gray grass, and there are
a broken bottle of indigo blue, some dry pokeberries, and a
little lump of yellow earth,