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money and worked as a lift-boy at night to pay for his lessons. How much would he get? Five dollars a visit? Fine.
Next afternoon young Swain came, and the lessons began. Swain gave the old man a pencil and a sheet of paper and said, "Let's try and draw that vase. Try it, Mr. Ellsworth, please."
The old man took the pencil and made a line. He made another line and connected the two with several other lines. "There it is, young man," he said. "Such foolishness!"
Frank Swain did not get angry. He could not. He needed the five dollars. "If you want to draw," he said, "you will have to look at what you're drawing, sir."
Old Ellsworth turned and looked. "It's rather nice. I have never noticed it before."
The doctor came in and said that Mr. Ellsworth was rather weak, so it was enough for the first lesson.
The weeks went by. Swain came more and more often. The old man asked him to come two and even three times a week. Swain brought him a box of water-colours and some tubes of oil.
It was difficult to say whether Ellsworth had really become interested in art or whether he was secretly laughing to himself while looking at Dr. Caswell, Swain and Koppel. But one thing was certain: Ellsworth stopped buying things, his relatives were greatly pleased.
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lift-boy — ліфтер
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2. Find out in the text English equivalents to ihe following word-combinations:
ще молода людина, платити за навчання, намалювати вазу, провести лінію, було досить, все частіше і частіше, тричі на тиждень, зацікавитись мистецтвом
3. Read the statements which correspond to the contents of the text.
1. The student was old.
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