HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York.
THE FIRST VISIT TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S.
"Who wouldn't be frightened at having that great big-headed two-legged thing coming right at you?"
RULES FOR BOBBING.
When you start out to "bob," it is just as well to determine in advance what kind of bobbing you are going to do. There are several kinds, as most young people know—such as bobbing for apples, bobbing for eels, and bobbing on a bob-sled. A rule which would do very well when bobbing for apples would not suit you at all when sliding down hill, and vice versa. Therefore, the first general rule for bobbing is to select your kind, and then go ahead. The following rules are for the sled variety:
1. First get your bob. There is no use of trying to go bobbing without a bob. The boy who tries to bob without a bob is apt to wear his clothes out in a very short time, and to experience considerable discomfort into the bargain.
2. Having secured your bob, and got its runners and steering-gear into good working order, select a convenient hill upon which to coast, and start from the top of it. This is one of the most important of the rules of bobbing. Boys who have tried the experiment of starting to bob from the foot of the hill have met with considerable opposition not from the people about them, but from certain principles of nature which make it impossible for even the best of bob-sleds to coast up hill, and while there is no law against your trying to coast up hill which would result in your being put into jail if you broke it, persistence in the effort might result in your landing sooner or later in a lunatic asylum.