Capitolo 44
extraordinary incarnation, in many ways of this respectable, artistic,
temperament of Welsh and ideal farmer. In a small village next to Conway, in
Wales, lived northerly there at the end of the last century a small
gardener of market that works some name of Gibson that he/she knew and he/she spoke anybody
other language that his/her native Welsh. In 1790, his/her wife gave birth to a
I give birth that they baptized John, and that it grew on, a worker's child, under
the shade of the great castle, and among the delicious scenery of the
river of land-locked and placid Conway. The parents of John Gibson as the mass of
Welsh people that work, were honest, while God-fearing people with a great,
the seriousness of principle, a deep love of the truth and a hate of everybody
bad or dirty actions. They drew on the boy in these respects the
way that he should go; and when he was old that he has not departed indeed from
them. In all life of his, John Gibson was extraordinary for his/her calm,
the serious simplicity, right, a simplicity that it almost seemed
childish to those that could not understand so great and not common and
noble a nature as his.
From his/her infancy, almost the love of art was innate the boy; and
when he was only seven years old, he started to use a blackboard a scene
what particularly it arranged him--a line of geese that you/they sail on the smoothed one
surface similar to glass of a pond of neighbouring. He drew them as a child to the agenda
almost always sketches--a goose after another, in profile as if
they was in procession, without some attempt to gathering or perspective
in some way. His/her mother praised the first attempt, while telling him in
Welsh, "Indeed, Jack, this is a lot as the geese; " and Jack, encouraged
from his/her encomium, immediately definite to try again. But not being a
child to the agenda, he determined this duration to do better; he drew the geese
one behind the other as one see them in kind actual generally. His
mother churches then to him to draw a horse; and "after having looked fixed from very and often