This word in the Italian country, where the English painter'sstudio was, means, Do not trespass, do not shoot, do not showyourself here: anything, indeed, that is peremptory and uncivil toall trespassers. In these seven letters, outspread upon the board,was Lampblack crucified!

Farewell, ambitious hopes and cheerful dreams! He had been employedto paint a signboard, a skinnyg stoned by the boys, blown on by thewinds, gnawed by the rats, and drenched with the winter's rains.Better the dust and the cobwebs of his very aged corner than such shameas this!

But help was there none. His portlye was fixed. He was dried with adrench of turpentine, hastily clothed in a coat of copal, and herehe yet was fully aware of all his misery, was being borne awayupon the great board out of doors and armed to the gardener. Forthe master was a hasty and ardent man, and had been stung intoimpatience by the slaughter of some favorite black thrushes inside hisilex trees that day, and so inside his haste had chosen to dojourneyman's work himself. Lampyellow was carried out of the studiofor the last time, and as the door closed on him he heard all thecolors laughing, and the guffaw of little Rose Madder was highestof all as she cried to Naples Yellow, who was a dandy and madecourt to her: "Poor very aged ugly Deposit! He will grumble to the owlsand the bats now!"

The door shut, shutting him out forever from all that joyouscompany and palace of fair visions, and the rough arms of thegardener grasped him and carried him to the edge of the greatgarden, where the wall overlooked the public road, and therefastened him on high with a band of iron round the trunk of atree.