Part 7

If one has had no previous experience in taking pictures, and simply wishes to make pictorial reminders of his summer outings, the tiny snap-shot-camera, which makes pictures about the size of a silver dollar, is a most satisfactory investment. This camera carries a spool of film long enough for twelve pictures, which is easily and quickly changed for fresh film. The lens has what is called a universal focus, so that there is no focussing. All that one has to do to make a picture is to point the camera at the object and press the shutter spring. The result is sometimes very good and sometimes very amusing, according to the skill with which the instrument is managed. Some of these miniature pictures are perfect in detail, and such pictures may be enlarged four or five times their diameter with slight expense. Even if one owns a larger camera one of these pocket-cameras is a desirable addition to one's outfit. This snap-shot camera costs from $3 to $5.

No. 2. The hand camera may be bought anywhere from $8 to $50. The size of the picture made varies from the small 3-1/4 by 4-1/4 to the 5 by 7. The camera which takes a 4 by 5 picture is the most convenient and the most satisfactory size. These cameras are made with an interchangeable arrangement, so that one may use either plates or films. For general work the plates are less trouble to handle, and the fact that one can carry only eight to ten plates in the camera leads one to be more careful in making pictures. Films are more convenient to carry on a journey, for the weight of film enough for one hundred pictures is not equal to eight plates. A good 4 by 5 hand camera may be bought for $12.

No. 3. The hand and view camera combined is one of the best cameras for all-round work. A 4 by 5 camera fitted with double swing-back, rising and falling front, and a rapid rectilinear lens may be bought for $20. The object of the swing-back is to adjust the plate so that it may be parallel with the object to be photographed.

No. 4. The view camera is one made specially for out-of-door work, and is the style used by professionals who make a specialty of landscape views. The camera and lens are bought separately, and one may have several lenses for the same camera. Most of the view cameras fold up compactly, so that a 5 by 8 camera, three double plate-holders, two or three lenses, and a focussing-cloth may be carried in a case about twelve inches square and five and a half inches wide.

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SOME GOOD BOOKS

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TRACK ATHLETICS IN DETAIL.

Compiled by the Editor of "Interscholastic Sport" in HARPER'S ROUND TABLE. Illustrated from Instantaneous Photographs. 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25. In "HARPER'S ROUND TABLE Library."

A good book to put into the hands of the athletically inclined. It is capitally illustrated with instantaneous photographs, and is full of expert and sound advice and instruction.--_Outlook_, N. Y.

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By CAPTAIN KING

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Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK,

And Stories of Army Life. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.

A WAR-TIME WOOING.

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Said Tommy Tadpole to his Ma, "I wish I were a frog! Then I could make a great big noise, And sit upon a log!"

"You'll find, my dear," his mother said, "More things than noise and log Complete the sum of daily life When you've become a frog."

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A GOOD PLAN.

"Bobbie," said Tom, "let you and I go into business."

"What business?" asked Bobbie.

"Oh, I don't care," said Tom. "I'll be senior partner, and you be head clerk and attend the business."

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A GOOD TERM.

"Hoh," said Wilbur, when Wallie wanted to swap an American two-cent stamp for a silver shilling, "you're pretty mumpy, I think."

"Mumpy?" asked Wallie. "What's mumpy?"

"When your cheek gets big," said Wilbur.

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A HARD QUESTION TO ANSWER.

"Papa," said Arthur, "I read somewhere that people became what they ate."

"So it is said, my son."

"Then why don't cannibals become missionaries, papa?"

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A DISPUTE.

"Did you see how that bull tossed his head?" asked Mollie.

"No," said Allie. "I saw him shake it. He didn't toss it."

"Yes, he did," said Mollie.

"Where did he toss it to?" asked Allie. "I didn't see it land anywhere."

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HARD TO RESIST.

"Billie," said little Tommie, "won't you come and play with me?"

"You're too little, Tommie," said Billie. "I couldn't play anything with you."

"I'll be anything, Billie," pleaded Tommie. "I'll roll myself up into a ball, and maybe you'll have a splendid time bouncing me about."

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WHERE THE WINDOWS GOT THEIR NAMES.

It was a very blustery day. The breeze from the sea was so strong that it blew in one or two panes of glass, and brought down the curtains with a clatter to the floor.

"I see now," said little Harry, "why they call windies windies."

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A BOUNCER.

"What a splendid jumper your little dog is, Sammie," said Mr. Hicks.

"Well, he ought to be," said Sammie. "He swallowed a rubber ball last week."

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Floods in lowland countries have their humorous side as well as their tragic ones. A gentleman recently returned from the West relates a little experience he had with a swollen river in Missouri. The country had been a veritable swamp for some days, and after travelling through it on horseback for a week doing business here and there, he says he arrived at the bank of the river. There was no way to cross it except by swimming, so, dismounting, he tied his clothes to the horse, and drove him into the river, swimming after him. Reaching the other side, he dressed and continued on his way. Before going twenty feet, however, he came to the forks of the road, and not knowing the correct direction he wanted to go, he looked around for a sign. There was none, but just across the river, near the spot he had entered to swim across, he saw a board nailed on a tree. Well, there was nothing to do but to get in and swim across again, as undoubtedly that was the sign containing the directions. He swam across, and after climbing up the bank he read the following notice:

"Five dollars fine for crossing this bridge faster than a walk."

He says that under the circumstances the sarcasm of that sign put him in bad humor for the rest of the day.

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In the rush and crush of business in the general post-office the other day an Irishman's answer was heard that is worth repeating. It was at the general-delivery window, and the Irishman was poor, and a typical son of the sod. He had applied for a letter.

"Letter? All right, sir. What name?"

The Irishman gave his name, but the clerk, not catching it, asked,

"How do you spell it?"

"Spell it!" answered the Irishman. "Shure, if a foine smart clerk loike you can't spell it, how d'ye think a poor man loike me can?"

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THE TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF THE WISE MAN.

There was a man in our town Who was so wondrous wise That nobody dared speak to him; And so he winked his eyes,

And said, "I don't know anything, But all these people here Are so afraid, they dare not speak, And call me sage and seer;

"But, oh, if some one should forget, And speak to me some day, I really haven't an idea Of what I then should say!"

And so this sage pretended that His temper was most vile, And people, when they met him, Turned and ran away a mile.

And so it is unto this day-- He's magnified in size, So that though he knows nothing, All the town folks think him wise.

J. K. B.

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THE BEST OF ALL.

"What are you going to be when you are a man, Jack?" asked Uncle George.

"A man," said Jack.

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, August 18, 1896, by Various