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Show QUITE PROBABLY IT WOULD Little Accident to Headgear Likely to Spoil Expression of Almost ( Any Man. "Look pleasant," said the photographer. photogra-pher. The sitter raised his eyes and gave a sickening smirk. "Your head just a little more to the left, please," suggested the voice from the black shroud. "No, don't move the eyes." Like a man suffering from a stiff neck or an Eiffel tower collar, the sitter tilted tilt-ed his head gingerly till it reached the desired angle, and he resembled a dying fish trying not to mind. "That's very nice, very nice indeed," said the photographer. "Stay Just there while I make the exposure." He removed the cap as he spoke and counted out a minute and three-quarters. "Thank you," he observed. "You can get up. I'm afraid you have been sitting on jyour hat." "My hat!" roared the sitter, sit-ter, angrily, regarding the flattened felt. "Why the dickens didn't you tell me I was 6itting on my hat?" "My dear sir," protested the photographer, blandly, "that would have spoiled your expression." |