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And so we have Kathleen down on paper. She deserves our thanks, and if she laughs, as she probably will, and exclaims, "Oh, how queer I look in your drawing!" you can tell her that if she will only sit to us fairly often, we will improve and hope some day to make her as nice-looking as she would wish.

Fig. 8. The Balancing of Moving Figures

Now what about Jack—do you think he would care to sit for his picture?

Jack being a gentleman full of frolic will probably like to pose in more or less spirited action. Why not? If he wishes to peer aft across the good kitchen chair with his back toward us, we shall probably find it is no more difficult to draw him thus than from a side view. His energy may be a spur to ours.