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THE YOUNG DRAUGHTSMAN.
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nostrils, as in the accompanying curious drawing by a seven-year-old Jamaica girl (Fig. 7, e).[1]

Fig. 7.

The introduction of other features, more especially ears and hair, must, according to my observations, be looked on as occasional only, and as a mark of an advance to a more naturalistic treatment. Differences of treatment occur here too. Thus the ears, which are apt to be absurdly large, are now inserted inside the Fig. 8. head circle, now outside it. The hair appears now as a dark cap of horizontal strokes, now as a kind of stunted fringe, now as a bundle or wisp on one side, which may either fall or stand on end (see Fig. 7, d, and the accompanying drawing by a girl of nearly four. Fig. 8, a). These methods of representation are occasionally varied by a more elaborate line device, as a curly looped line similar to


  1. It is possible that in this drawing the two short lines added to the mouth are an original attempt to give the teeth.