"Do hurry, Dad, and finish your breakfast! We're anxious to be off. Couldn't the pictures wait?"
"No, Bet, I want to take them now," replied Shirley. "You can go along if you want to and I'll come later."
"We'll wait," answered Bet cheerfully.
The Colonel rose and saluted, "I am at your service!"
Shirley arranged the lighting like an expert and took several poses of the little fan against a background of black velvet, placing it in different degrees of light. The other girls were not particularly interested. Shirley's hobby was all right, when she took pictures of them, but just now they were impatient to be off.
Then Shirley had to waste more time showing the Colonel about the latest self-photography attachment that she had recently bought.
"I got tired always being left out of the group. And the other girls can't take pictures to suit me."
"Is this the same idea that is used in photographing wild animals?" asked Colonel Baxter.
"It's the same principle, but a little wire or spring is touched by the animal and this releases the shutter and for night pictures sets off a flash powder as well. I'm going to get one of those attachments by winter time, as the camera company has offered a prize for wild animal pictures."
"Aw, come on, Shirley," called Joy. "You're an old slow poke. You finished that picture long ago."