That's Why

Jimmy started painting¹ when he was three years old, and when he was five; he was already² very good at it. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid³ a lot of money for them. They said⁴, This boy's going⁵ to be famous⁶ when he's little older, and then we're going to sell these pictures for a lot more money.

Jimmy's pictures were different from other people because he never painted on all of the paper. He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.

That's very clever, everyone said, “Nobody⁷ else does that! “

One day somebody⁸ bought one of Jimmy's pictures and then said to him, Please tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom⁹ half of your pictures, but not on the top half?

Because I'm small, Jimmy said, and my bushes¹⁰ don't reach¹¹ very high.