You
want to use a big stop and make it quick!'
"'But what do you make it of and what is it for?' I asked perplexedly.
"He laughed and explained that I should make the hole in my lens
larger and take a more rapid exposure; then he sold me a bottle of
flashlight powder.
"That night I thought I would take a group at the dinner table, so
we all assembled around the board. After knocking down a couple of
pictures and upsetting the cuspidor, I got things all ready to light
the fuse, expecting to get back to my chair and be in the picture
before the stuff went off. The moment I lit it, however, the durned
thing blazed up like a small volcano and I ran around the room for
a minute or so with my thumb in my mouth. Then I discovered that the
slide had not been withdrawn from the plate-holder. Well, the room
was full of smoke and the baby was so badly frightened that we had to
put him to bed before I could make another attempt. When my wife came
back I set the cat up in the high-chair to fill out the gap and tried
it again. This time, by using a long fuse and making a third-base
slide, I got almost to my chair and the prospects looked promising.
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