TWO ARTISTS MEET

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 16

TWO ARTISTS MEET

LADY ALICE FERGUSSON AND A BOY Not long ago a lad was engaged in sketching in pencil on. a piece of smooth-faced paper, on the sunny slopes of Mt. Victoria, Wellington, when a lady approached him and asked if she could be permitted to see his work. She offered a suggestion or two in the kindest possible manner and stated, incidentally, that he was using the wrong kind of paper. To sketch in the manner he was endeavouring to do required a coarser-grained paper, she said. The boy said that the paper he was using was the only sort he could procure. “Will you use some of the sketching paper if I send you some?” she questioned. The boy said he would be glad to have some good poper, and in return to inquiry gave her his name and address. That evening he told his parents what had happened and they laughed at the incident, not thinking they would hear anything more about it. To their great surprise a parcel of paper, some good drawing pencils, and a packet of crayons were delivered at the lad’s address the next morning, without any indication as to the donor’s identity. But with all the curiosity of boyhood, inquiries were made, and it was found that Lady Alice Fergusson was the handmaid of Art on the mountain-side.