Alexander Black
Author of “Miss Jerry,” “Miss
America,” “The Story of Ohio,”
etc. · · · · · · · · ·
With Photographic
Illustrations by the
Author · · · ·
_BOSTON_
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY
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COPYRIGHT, 1899,
BY
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY
_THIRD EDITION_
Plimpton Press
H. M. PLIMPTON & CO., PRINTERS & BINDERS,
NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A.
TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & CO., NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A.
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To My Boys
CARL AND MALCOLM
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[Illustration]
_A WORD AT THE
BEGINNING_
_IN the olden days people peered about in the world for the fountain of
perpetual youth. Nowadays they are wiser. They find a hobby—an
enthusiasm, by which the old are made young and the young are made wise
and happy._ _This is the story of the camera hobby; of an amateur
photographer and his chums; of a boy’s adventures in the company of his
camera; of a camera club and the old and young brought_ _together by the
influence of a common interest; of journeys in search of the
picturesque; of problems, struggles, and surprises._ _The pictures are
not by any means always intended to show my readers how photographs
should be made, but rather to suggest the interest of familiar and
accessible things, and that the best thing about a photograph is not
always the thing we wished or expected to put in it._ _For assistance in
the form of pictures at the Montauk camp I am indebted to my friend, Mr.
Walter Hammitt._
_A. B._
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