Pinty Tailor was a little boy who enjoyed going to school and doing all sorts of things, except for art and writing. Using brushes and pencils did not come easy to Pinty, so his works of art did not end happily, and he would just give up in disgust. But one day Pinty found a pencil of such lovely colours that he could not resist, and he tried drawing a circle. As ever, it did not go well, and he was about to throw the pencil away when his drawing began to speak to him. "Psst! You aren't going to leave me like this, are you? Come on, the least you can do is draw me a pair of eyes!" said the drawing. Pinty was understandably shocked, but he managed to draw two little spots inside the circle. "Much better, now I can see myself," said the circle, looking around at itself..."Arghh! But what have you done to me?!""I don't draw very well," said Pinty, trying to make excuses. "OK, no problem," the drawing interrupted him, "I'm sure that if you try again you'll do better. Go on, rub me out!" So Pinty erased the circle and drew another one. Like the first one, it was not very round. "Hey! You forgot the eyes again!" "Oh, yeah." "Hmmm, I think I'm going to have to teach you how to draw until you can do me well," said the circle with its quick, high-pitched little voice. To Pinty, who remained almost paralysed with shock, this did not seem like a bad idea, and he immediately found himself drawing and erasing circles. The circle would not stop saying "rub this out, but carefully; it hurts," or "draw me some hair, quickly, I look like a lollipop(棒棒糖)!" and other funny remarks.
After spending nearly the whole afternoon together, Pinty could already draw the little figure much better than most of his classmates could have. He was enjoying it so much that he did not want to stop drawing with this crazy new teacher of his. Before going to bed that night, Pinty gave his new instructor a hearty "thank you" for having taught him how to draw so well.
Para 1 The next morning Pinty jumped out of bed and went running to find his pencil, but it was not there.
Para 2 He realised that the crazy little teacher had been right.
