Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1908 — An Ideal Sitter. [ARTICLE]

An Ideal Sitter.

A Washington artist while sketching In North Carolina was one day in search of a suitable background of dark pines for a picture he had planned. At last be found the precise situation he was seeking, and, best of all, there chanced to be a pretty detail in the figure of an old colored woman in the foreground. / The artist asked the old woman tc remain seated until he had sketched her. She assented with the greatest good nature, but. in a few minutes asked how long the artist would be. "Oh, only about a quarter of an hour,” he answered. Three minutes or so later the old darky again inquired—this time with manifest anxiety—how. long the operation of sketching would take. "Not long,” was the reassuring reply. “But why do you ask so anxiously?" “Oh, nothin’, sab,” the old woman hastened to respond, “only I’b sittln’ on an ant hill, sah.”—Harper's Weekly.