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Show PERSUADED WITH A CAMERA. Bow a Young Man Won Over His Pre-pectlve Pre-pectlve Father-In-I.aw. "It was. simply bull-headed luck,' said the young man with the red shirt waist. "Papa declared that it would be a warm day when he consented to ( my marrying his daughter, and as the weather record had been broken several sev-eral times after he had made that remark, re-mark, I was beginning to lose hope. When all-the-world-to-me went on her vacation I went to the same place and put up at the same hotel. Now, papa-in-law-to-be is an old blowhard, and : it made me tired everybody else, too the way he bragged about the fish he caught in former years. Finally, some one hinted that it would be a g?ed plan for him to make good and give us ai "xample of his skill as a fisherman. He accepted the challenge and spent three days getting his tackle ready. He went alone, as he said he didn't want to be bothered by having any greenhorns along, and we waited with bated breath for him to return. Now, I am something of a camera fiend and late in the afternoon I started out to take a picture of a little wooded dell when the shadows were well down. I was making my way to the road through some thick brush when I discovered dis-covered my daddy-in-Iaw-to-be standing stand-ing in the middle of the road bargaining bargain-ing with a small boy for a long string of magnificent fish. Quick as a flash I took a snap shot of him just as ha was holding onto his pocket with one hand and digging into it with the other. I let the old man brag around the hotel for three days about the fish, he had caught Then I showed him the picture, told him if he didn't eon-Bent eon-Bent to my marrying his daughter I would spread it broadcast over the hotel, ho-tel, and pointed out where his reputation reputa-tion would be. He wilted, gulped hard, and surrendered. He isn't a bad sort when you know how to handle him."-Detroit him."-Detroit Free Press. |