Two Ways Of Seeing A Picture

An artist had sold a picture for an exhorbttant (rice and the purcluiser sued to recover. The lawyer for the purehaser was making the ii-i ist uncomfortable by his questions. "Now, Kir," he said in that pleasant ingratiating mannor of lawyers with a witness, "do you think anybody could see beauty in that picture ?" '■Some persons certainly could," replied the artirst. 'You thkak the initlated In teclmical matters mlght have no diificulty In understandlng your work?" "I am sure they would not." '■Do you think you could make me see any beauty in tliat picture ?" tliis most superciliously. 'Probably not npw, sir," and the artist was most humble, ''but once 1 could have done eo easily." "NoWi eir, liow Ís that ? I don't understand you. Explain, if you picase." "That's quite easy, sir. I could have done it simply by employing you as my counsel in this case."