Once there was a boy in Toronto． His name was Jimmy． He started
painting when he was three years old, and when he was
five he was
already very good at it． He painted many beautiful and interesting
pictures, and a lot of
people bought his pictures．They said, "This boy
is going to be famous when he\''s a little older, and then we\''re going
to sell these pictures for a lot of money．"Jimmy\''s pictures were
different from other people\''s because he never painted on all of the
paper． He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty．
"That\''s very clever, " everybody said． "No other painters have ever
done that! "One day somebody asked him, "Please tell me this, Jimmy．
Why do you paint on the bottom（底） half of your pictures, but not on the
top half? "
"Because I\''m small, " Jimmy said, "and my brushes can\''t reach very high．"