The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-03-02
GETTING THEIR PICTURES TAKEN.

Hand in hand they passed timidly up
the stairs and went into the gallery and
told the artist they had come to have
their pictures taken.
'In group or singly?"
"Well," said Zeke, removing his hat,
and wiping his face with a red cotton
handkerchief taken from the crown, 81
don't know edzactly. Which comes the
cheapest.
1t was explained to him that the price
would depend more on the esize and style
of the picture than twould upon whether
they set separate or together, and SO,
after whispered consultation they con-
cluded that as they had joined hands for
life it would be better to put them in one
frame.
AS the artist was placing them in po-
sition, Zeke looked sweetly upon his
companion, and said:
CHOW, Polly, want you tolook your
purtiest. Think O. that picture O. the
Sleeping Beauty on the panel O your
fathers wagon-box, an try your smartest
to walk around it. You kin do it if you
try-you've got the feechers that kin lay
it in the shade if you'll only compose
'em an bring out the right sort of ex=
preston. You don tWant TO look DraSSy,
nuther too timid but jest kind O. be-
twixt and between. You don't want to
be gigglin' nur you don want to git that
sanktimonious solemncholly look about
you that Sister Peasely puts on when
ever she gifts up in class meetin' and
goes to tellin' about how fast we're all
slidin' down hill to predition. That
won't do at all, you've got it every bit
Jest as she has, and not fringe miSSin'.
Tone it down some with little touch OF
smiles. Hold on-too much, that is
there you go ag'in, an now you've got
that wild bloodthirsty stare your sister
Susan has whenever the old muley steps
into the milk bucket. Stiddy there
hold easy-how your edgin' round to it
That's better. Look where the man
D 'ints, and don't move a muscle till get
my face in trim. Don't wink or blink,
Polly-there-give me your hand, an
don't git skeered-I'm with you. All
ready, Mr.. Man. As soon as l tap my
foot crack away. MINIMUM, Polly"
Away went the cloth and the poor
creatures before the camera sat as rigid
as bean poles during the intervening
seconds, WHICH seemed an age, just at
the last moment, as bad luck would have
it, Polly had to sneeze.
"There! !" exclaimed Zeke. "You
have blowed the whole head Off en- that
picter, now, I'll bet bag O pertaters,
an mine, too maybe Why didn' you
muzzle in minute or to longer ?"
Polly hah-hahed, and said she could
not to save her life-the smell of the
paint had filled her head, and something
had to break.
The artist had been quick to see the
emergency and threw the cloth over the
camera, and said he guessed no very
great damage had been done.
Ina few minutes the picture was ready
for their inspection.
"Well, swan to goodness, Polly, If
you don't look sweeter than cake OF
maple sugar, an just as natural as rail
fence but don't have quite as Sarch-
in look about me as | would like to
take home. My hair might O had lit
tie more roach to it, an it seems to me
as though my left ear was Sot around
little too fur, but the finger ring, you II
notice shines out beautiful, an the
breas' pin is all there. was too anx-
ious about you to git as easy as l or't to
been, but | don't know as it could O
been bettered much. It's a better-look
in couple than any Isee hangin' around
here, an SO guess we won't bother the
man to take aim at us again. It's ahead
of any thing I've ever seen in Thomp-
son Township, an SO | guess We'll take
it along-it's an improvin' picter-the
more l look at it the better like it. If
I'd only had little more of roach
on my hair | could not O. been suited
better"
Human nature is about the same in all
garbs and in all conditions of life--never
quite satisfied.