Before beginning her work, she studied all the touches by which the drawing was made in the book, with great attention and care, in order that she might imitate them as precisely as possible.
She succeeded very well indeed in this second attempt.

The swing made even a prettier picture than the house.

When it was finished she cut the paper out, of the same size with the other, drew a border around it, and marked it No.2.She went on in this manner every day as long as she remained at Mary Erskine's, drawing a new picture every day.
At last, when she went home, Mary Erskine put all her drawings up together, and Mary Bell carried them home to show them to her mother.
This was the beginning of Mary Bell's drawing.
As for Mary Erskine, her second lesson was the word _Erskine_, which she found a great deal harder to write than Mary.

There was one thing, however, that pleased her in it, which was that there was one letter which she knew already, having learned it in Mary: that was the _r_.

All the rest of the letters, however, were new, and she had to practice writing the word two evenings before she could write it well, without looking at the copy.