“Look pleasant, please,” grunted Mole, from under the cloth which was over the camera.
“You must stay here for fifteen minutes,” added Ugly Dog, very quietly.
O, my! O, my! Take it away!
So Sly Fox stayed sitting there with a bouquet in his right paw and trying to look pleasant, although the tongs about his ears were so tight that his eyes stuck out, and he could hardly keep his tongue from hanging down. Mole took the camera back into the dark room, and, after awhile, he came out with a photograph all finished.
“I’ll put it up right in front of you, Sly Fox,” said Ugly Dog, “so that you can take a good look at it.”
As Sly Fox looked toward the photograph Ugly Dog slipped up behind and gave the tongs another turn and then jumped back into the bushes. When Sly Fox saw the picture he raised his paws and said, “O, my! O, my! Take it away.” It was such an awful picture that it would scare anybody to look at it. Mole had placed pictures of different animals together and had made one picture. There was a creature with a long neck like Silly Goose’s, and a little stubby tail like Ugly Dog’s, and a body like big Elephant’s. It had two feet which looked like the goose’s, and two other feet which looked like elephant’s feet.
“I don’t look like that?” cried Sly Fox.