When Polly left school,she had no idea what she wanted to do. A friend of hers Josephine, who was at art college, persuaded her to join her there.
Polly’s parents were saving money to buy their own house, and they had hoped Polly would start earning too immediately she left school, so when she told them that she wanted to go to art college, she had expected them to have objections (异议). But they had none.
“You’ll have to find some kind of job to pay for your college, “Polly’s mother warned her. “We’ll be happy to keep you at home. But we have no money for your college courses, and none for paints and all the other things you’ll need.”
I’m really very grateful to you both.” Polly answered, “ and there’s no problem about getting a job; the head of the art college has offered me one in their library.
After a few months,Polly’s parents really felt very proud of their daughter, especially when she brought home some of the things she had painted.
Polly sometimes went to museums to see paintings by famous artists,and one day she said to her parents, “Why don’t you come to a museum with me one day? Then you can see the kinds of things I’m trying to do myself.”
Polly’s mother was free on Thursday afternoons and on Saturdays, but her father sometimes had to work on those days. They waited until one Saturday when he didn’t have to work, and then they all went off to the museum.
She showed her parents some famous paintings,and then they came to one that they recognised.
“This,” Polly said, pointing to it, “is Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.”
What a cheek!” her father angrily answered. “He’s copied the picture we’ve had in our hall for the last 10 years!”
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