. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. iend or Quaker. The Friendsof that day did not think that pictures were useful thinirs to make or to have. 57 Before he was seven years old, this little boybegan to draw pictures. One day he was watch-ing the cradle of his sisters child. The babysmiled. Benny was _ ,,so pleased with her 9^y^^beauty, that he made wa picture of her inred and black picture of the ^baby pleased hismother when she saw it. ^>That was very pleasant tothe boy. He made other pictures,school he used to draw with a penbefore he could write. He made pic-tures o
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. iend or Quaker. The Friendsof that day did not think that pictures were useful thinirs to make or to have. 57 Before he was seven years old, this little boybegan to draw pictures. One day he was watch-ing the cradle of his sisters child. The babysmiled. Benny was _ ,,so pleased with her 9^y^^beauty, that he made wa picture of her inred and black picture of the ^baby pleased hismother when she saw it. ^>That was very pleasant tothe boy. He made other pictures,school he used to draw with a penbefore he could write. He made pic-tures of birds and of animals. Some-times he would draw flowers. He liked to draw so well, that some-times he forofot to do his work. His ,father sent him to work in the field \Jjone day. The father went out to see piower andhow well he was doing his work. Fruit of theBenny was no-where to be found. At ° ^ ^^^^last his father saw him sitting under a large poke-weed. He was making pictures. He had squeezedthe juice out of some poke-berries. The juice of. 58 poke-berries is deep red. With this the boy hadmade his pictures. When the father looked atthem, he was surprised. There were portraits ofevery member of the family. His father knewevery picture. Up to this time Benny had no paints nor anybrushes. The Indians had not all gone awayfrom that neigh-bor-hood. The Indians paint theirfaces with red and yellow colors. These colors theymake them-selves. Sometimes they prepare themfrom the juice of some plant. Sometimes they getthem by finding red or yellow earth. Some of theIndians can make rough pictures with these colors. The Indians near the house of Bennys fathermust have liked the boy. They showed him howto make red and yellow colors for himself. Heeot some of his mothers indioo to make now had red, yellow, and blue. By mixingthese three, the other colors that he wanted couldbe made. But he had no brush to paint with. He tooksome lono: hairs from the cats tail. Of these hemade
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