Pictures or Paintings

Once a mother and her two daughters were visiting London.

They had been doing sightseeing for some time when they found themselves opposite a notice-board with “National Picture Gallery” on it.

The girls said they would like to go in for they had never been in any picture gallery. They were sure it would be worth seeing.

But the mother didn’t think so. She had visited a picture gallery in her childhood and knew what it was like. She explained to the girls that they would not see there any “real pictures” (movies she meant), those pictures were just paintings.