Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-30

Mrs. Randall was systematically ar ranging bags, boxes, and wraps in the unoccupied seat of her Pullman sec ton. What in the world have you in the parcel?" she asked. Its not the candy or the"
 Its surprise for you, my dear. bought it the last thing before run ming for the train Guess what! Randall picked up the package with pleased grin. What do you think it
 q think Oh, Ned. is it a camera?"
 'It is! A first class instrument, too. It takes pictures postal card size, and baby could work it.
 How perfectly lovely! We'll snap everything we see on the whole trip, won't we?"
 "Yes, as soon as it's daylight to- morrow I'll begin by taking you in the very act of sitting luxuriously on the observation platform of this Cal ifornia flyer. We'll make a complete record of our pilgrimage, my dear"
 One day in San Francisco after Mrs. Randall had snapped her husband against a background of the Seal rocks and the sea, she sighed with deep satisfaction. 'Just think, Ned, what fun it will be to have a picture of you and the Pacific ocean,"
 And what fun it will be to have all those views of you on Mount Wilson," :" returned Randall laughingly. When we relapse into old stay-at-hOme par ents we can just look over these pie lures and live again our travels and see the raid once more. Next to the railway tickets and yourself, l be- lieve the camera is the most import ant thing I brought. I hope you're taking good care of all those rolls of films we've used"
 Yes, they're locked in the trunk, I,,,E I 41,s fv,rr hot it would be nice to have them devel- opeed and have some cards printed to send home, instead of sending all the commonplace colored ones we've been buying for the children
 T guess the children can put up with the commercial cards until we get home. I want to have these pie lures developed by somebody who l know does good work Anyway. the children will enjoy them more if we display them ourselves"
 Maybe you're right, but the truth is can hardly wait to see the prints my self"
 Mrs Impatience! sometimes wonder whether you really are twenty years older than our eldest"
 Who is 10 to-day. think of it! Ned, we must get some one to take a pie ture of us together to-day, so that we can have it enlarged and give it to little Lo for one of her birthday pres ents. I would think the world of a picture of my father and mother taken the day I was 10. They must have been young like us twenty years ago, Ned"
 Tt is entirely probable" Randall smiled. q must be sure to keep my hat on in this anniversary picture" You aren't hardly bald at all' 10 says I am. I'm afraid, my dear, | she hasn't the reverence for her dad | that you have for your father" But she adores you, Ned. and when she sees the bride-and- -groomy pie lures we're going to have I know | she'll say she has the handsomest "FIatterer! Well. come on, let's negotiate with that youth over there Perhaps he'll be sport enough to shoot 1 our camera at us"
 l A week later when they were pack 1 ing for home Randall looked up from his suitcase anxiously. T don't find the films" he said.
 why, I told you, Ned. that I have them in the trunk"
 That's so, but are you sure they're all there? There should be clever dozen. The twelfth is in the camera now Would you mind counting them 9 They're in the bottom of the trunk
 Well. I'd hate like the mischief tc lose any of them. I'd just like tc hloW that they re all Inere- I've peer l afraid that we'd lose one out of yOul 1 ba.g-or my pockets"
 Well, then, lift out the tray" com. manded Mrs. Randall, and when Ran. dall had obeyed deprecatingly she sHC her slim fingers down the inside of the trunk. and brought up, two or three al a time, the little boxes and laid then on the floor in long row.
 Well, I'm mighty glad we've got the whole lot all right" said Randall T believe I'll just tie them up ant