He often bought big sheets of white paper for a penny and gave them to the children to draw on, for be liked to see them drawing. The boys drew steam engines and animals, but Anna Mary was not satisfied
with that. She thought she could do better. She wanted to do whole kenes. And she wanted to do them in
color. Lacking paints, she used grape Juice and crushed berries for color. Sometimes she used astub of sed
or blue carpenter's chalk or the red dye that her father used to mark sheep-anything she could get her
hands on that would make her pictures bright and cheerful,