his ma.

"After a while he began to listen to reason and I set up my outfit
near the window in order to have a good light. I tore down a blind and
ripped a lace curtain clear across in my effort to get two exposures,
and, Good Lord! you ought to see those prints.

"In the first snap I must have moved the camera, for I got only one
side of the baby, but that side had three different arms and you could
see the back of the chair through all of them. The second was normal,
as to limbs, etc., and plumb in the center, but it was all fuzzy, like
an impressionist picture.

"I took them to the photo' store and asked the clerk what was wrong.
He said:

"'Why, you've timed 'em too long. He's moved all over the plate. You
want to use a big stop and make it quick!'

"'But what do you make it of and what is it for?' I asked perplexedly.

"He laughed and explained that I should make the hole in my lens
larger and take a more rapid exposure; then he sold me a bottle of
flashlight powder.

"That night I thought I would take a group at the dinner table, so
we all assembled around the board. After knocking down a couple of
pictures and upsetting the cuspidor, I got things all ready to light
the fuse, expecting to get back to my chair and be in the picture
before the stuff went off. The moment I lit it, however, the durned