Europe and elsewhere, by Mark Twain [pseud.] [with an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine]

INSTRUCTIONS IN ART

side as the other. You can always tell Washington
by that; he was very particular about his ears, and
about having them arranged the same old way all
the time.
By and by I shall get out of these confusions,
and then it will be plain sailing; but first-off the
confusions were natural and not to be avoided. My
reputation came very suddenly and tumultuously
when I published my own portrait, and it turned my
head a little, for indeed there was never anything
AND THE BUST ON ANOTHER
like it. In a single day I got orders from sixty-two
people not to paint their portraits, some of them
the most distinguished persons in the country-the
President, the Cabinet, authors, governors, admirals,
candidates for office on the weak side-almost everybody that was anybody, and it would really have
turned the head of nearly any beginner to get so
much notice and have it come with such a frenzy
of cordiality. But I am growing calm and settling
down to business, now; and pretty soon I shall cease
to be flurried, and then when I do a portrait I shall

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