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The average newly-fledged photographer wishes to begin before breakfast.
The barn or the back-yard fence is good enough for him, and if nothing
else alive is in sight, it is easy enough to try it on the dog. Few
dogs, however, have a proper sense of the responsibility of being
photographed. After everything is carefully arranged, they get up and
want to go home. Sometimes they remain silent until the picture is
started, when they begin to stroll around and make eight or nine dogs on
the plate; or they sit still and only wag their ears, until the negative
shows something like a halo of ears. This would give a professional
photographer much worriment of mind, but the amateur is generally wise
enough to see that his failures are the funniest things he has.--_Photo.
Times._