Out with Gun and Camera | Page 8

get them and
leave them at the doctor's house Saturday evening."
"And will you get the films and plates and other things, too?"
questioned Whopper.
"Yes. The doctor wants a complete outfit, including a daylight

developing tank, and all the chemicals for developing and printing.
Then you can see what your pictures look like before you leave camp,
and if a picture doesn't suit you can take it over again."
"Not if it's a wild beast," answered Giant with a grin.
"In the case of wild animals you had better save your films or plates
until you get home. Developing in camp is not conducive to the best
work, and you might lose the very film or plate you wanted the most."
"Yes, I know something about that," said Whopper. "I once took a
beautiful picture---at least, I thought it was beautiful---of a flock of
sheep, and when I tried to develop the plate in a hurry I got one end
light-struck, so it was no good."
"Yes, and once, when I was in a hurry to develop a roll of films I had of
a military parade," said Snap, "I got the hypo in the tank instead of the
developing solution, and that was the end of that roll."
"This is a good rule to remember," said the photographer. "Never open
the shutter of your camera until you are certain you are ready to take
the picture, and never attempt to develop a plate or a film until you are
sure your chemicals are properly mixed, and until you are sure you
have everything at hand with which to work, and until you are sure the
plate or film is properly protected from the light."
The boys were surprised when Mr. Jally announced that it was supper
time and that he must go home.
"Gracious! And I told my aunt we'd be to supper by six o'clock!"
exclaimed Shep. "We'll have to leg it to her house."
"Come again to-morrow at nine o'clock," said the photographer, and
this the chums promised to do.
"Well, I've learned a whole lot to-day," said Snap as they walked along.
"I am sure I can take a much better picture than formerly."

"And I've learned one little lesson," came from Whopper. "After this I
am not going to take so many snapshots of landscapes. I am going to
take time exposures, and put my camera on a tripod, and study the
scene through the ground glass, to get the best view possible."
Mrs. Carson, the doctor's sister, had given the boys their dinner, and
now she had supper on the table waiting for them. Their experiments of
the afternoon had made them hungry, and all "pitched in" with a vigor
that made the good woman smile.
"What do you intend to do this evening?" she asked.
"We are going to the circus, Aunt Jennie," answered Shep. "Father said
we might go."
"I thought as much. Don't stay out too late."
"We'll come home as soon as the show is over."
"Well, if it gets too late I'll put the key out for you---under the
front-door mat," said Mrs. Carson. "I fancy you can find your way to
your rooms."
"Certainly," answered Snap.
"You needn't stay up for us, Aunt Jennie," said Shep, who knew his
relative was in the habit of retiring early.
"I am not going to bed so very early, Shep. I am afraid some of those
tramps who follow the circus will come and rob me. I heard the town
was full of the good-for-nothings."
"You had better lock up good after we are gone," said Giant.
"No fear but what I'll do that," answered Mrs. Carson.
"We'll try not to wake you up when we come in, aunty."
"I'll hear you, never fear. And, Shep, if you are hungry when you get

back, you'll find a jar of cookies in the pantry, and a pitcher of milk in
the icebox."
"Good for you!" cried the doctor's son, and he ran around the table and
gave his aunt a hug and a kiss. "You know what boys like, don't you?"
The four chums were soon on their way to the circus grounds, located
on the outskirts of Railings. Here they found erected a large main tent
and several smaller ones, all lit up by numerous gasolene torches. At
one side of the main tent was a side show, with numerous pictures hung
between high poles. Near the entrance to the big show was a ticket
wagon, and here a long line of people were awaiting their turns to get
the bits of pasteboard which would admit them to the wonders under
the canvases.
"Going to have a big crowd and no mistake," observed Snap as he
looked at the folks flocking to the