"I am going to leave my assistant in charge," said Mr. Jally. "I'll
go out with you, and we'll have a practical lesson in getting outdoor
views."

Taking two cameras with them, the photographer and the boys started
off, to be gone until noon. They walked across the city and along
the river, and at the latter locality took half a dozen pictures,
Mr. Jally instructing them all the while.

"Now I'll show you how a commonplace bit of scenery can be made to
look quite romantic," said Mr. Jally presently. "Let us walk over
to the railroad embankment. Such an embankment is not pretty in
itself, but I think we can get quite a pretty view of it."

After many instructions they took a view of the embankment. Their
walk had tired the photographer, who was rather stout, and he
proposed that they rest. Near at hand was a section shed with some
lumber piles, and there they took it easy.

During a lull in the conversation the boys noticed three men
approaching. They were rather tough-looking characters, and at first
the lads took them to be tramps. The men walked behind the lumber
piles without noticing our friends.

"Some fellows that followed up the circus, I suppose," said Snap.

"Yes; the kind my aunt was afraid of," added the doctor's son.

"We can do it jest as well as not," they heard one of the men say.