MICHAEL ANGELO.
Long ago in a country over the sea there lived a Grand Duke.
He had a garden in which he put some beautiful statues.
A boy artist named Michael Angelo often came there to study. One day he saw across the garden the statue of a faun that had no head.
“I will make a head for that statue,” said Angelo.
He made a head of a laughing faun. The mouth was open so that the teeth could be seen.
About this time the Grand Duke was walking in his garden. He stopped to look at the statue made by the boy artist.
“Well done, Angelo!” said the Grand Duke. “But, see! You have made an old faun. He should not have all his teeth.”
“That is so,” said Angelo, and he quickly took out some of the teeth.
This pleased the Grand Duke so much that he asked Angelo to live with him in his castle.
The years Michael Angelo spent among the beautiful statues in the Grand Duke’s garden helped him to become a great artist.