When a boy, he was fond of drawing.

At school, he made drawings of horses, dogs, cows, and men, for pins: that was his first pay; and he used to go home with his jacket sleeve stuck full of them.

He and his brothers next made figures in clay.

Pope's Homer lay on his father's window.

The boys were so delighted with it, that they made thousands of models--one taking the Greeks, and the other the Trojans.