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MRS. RISDEN can sketch from nature very beautifully; and the view from the sitting-room window is to be painted for a Christmas-present to her husband. Her attention is often distracted from the pleasant work by watching her little daughter. Once Maria spoiled a picture entirely, when Mrs. Risden went out of the room for a few minutes, by daubing some red paint on a green tree. The child really thought she had made a great improvement, and could hardly understand her mother's expressions of dismay. She is not mischievous, generally, and of course was readily forgiven.