Get Next! by Hugh McHugh
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Anyway, before I was through setting I felt like a hen, but when she tried to coax me to climb up on a limb of a tree and stay there till she got a picture of me looking like an owl, I swore softly in three languages, fell over the back fence, and ran for my life. When I rubbershoed it back that afternoon my wife was busy developing her crimes. The proper and up-to-date caper in connection with taking snap shots these days is to buy a developing outfit and upset the household from pit to dome while you are squeezing out pictures of every dearly beloved friend that crosses your pathway. My wife selected a spare room on the top floor where she could await developments. A half hour later ghostly noises; began to come from that room and mysterious whisperings fell out of the window and bumped over the lawn. When I reached the front door I found that the gardener had left, the waitress was leaving, the baby had discharged the nurses and the nurse was telephoning for a policeman. "Where is Mrs. Henry?" I asked Mary, the nurse. "She is still developing," said Mary. |
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