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Владимир Дмитриевич Аракин
sneaked into the Gallery one afternoon and blushed to the top of his ears when he saw "Trees Dressed in White", a loud, raucous
splash on the wall. As two giggling students stopped bfefore the strange anomaly Swain fled in terror. He could not bear to hear what
they had to say.
During the course of the exhibition the old man kept on taking his lessons, seldom mentioning his entry in the exhibit. He was
unusually cheerful.
Two days before the close of the exhibition a special messenger brought a long official-looking envelope to Mister Ellsworth
while Swain, Koppel and thу doctor were in the room. "Read it to me," requested the old man. "My eyes are tired from painting."
"It gives the Lathrop Gallery pleasure to announce that the First Landscape Prize of $1,000 has been awarded to Collis
P.Ellsworth ^fgr his painting, "Trees Dressed in White"."
Swain and Koppel uttered a series of inarticulate gurgles. Doctor Caswell, exercising his professional self-control with a supreme
effort, said: "Congratulations, Mister Ellsworth. Fine, fine ... See, see ... Of course, I didn't expect such great news. But , but — well,
now, you'll have to admit that art is much more satisfying than business."
"Art's nothing," snapped the old man. "I bought the Lathrop Gallery last month."
EXPLANATORY NOTES
1. jerkwater
2. railroad
considerable enough to make the mixture of the two variants sound strange and unnatural. A student of English should bear in mind
that different words are used for the same objects, such as can, candy, truck, mailbox, subway instead of tin, sweets, lorry, pillar-box (or
letter-box), underground.
3. Iowa ['aiaua] or ['aiawaj: a north central state of the USA. The noun is derived from the name of an Indian tribe. Quite a
number of states, towns, rivers and the like in America are named by Indian words, e.
Mississippi, Missouri, Michigan.
4. rot (s7.): foolish remarks or ideas.
5. bosh
6. umph [Amf]: an inteijection expressing uncertainty or suspicion.
7. poppycock: foolish nonsense.
8. by gum
9. kinda: the spelling fixes contraction of the preposition 'of and its assimilation with the preceding noun which is a characteristic
trait of American pronunciation.
10. elfish: (becoming rare) (of people or behaviour) having the quality or habit of playing tricks on people like an elf;
mischievous.
11. colored: the American spelling is somewhat simpler than its British counterpart. The suffix
12. the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the leading museum in America, was founded in 1870. Its collections cover a period of 5,000
years, representing the cultures of the Ancient world and Near and Far East as well as the arts of Europe and America. Among the
