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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The Tragedy yet already falling a prey to angry passions; but develop- ment goes forward at such motor pace in a chick that the one, only out of his own egg about half an hour, will watch his brother emerging from his with such a superior expres- sion of mild curiosity, as much as to say, "What a very odd and undignified proceeding!" In spite of the habit the chicks have of defying one's efforts to picture them at critical moments, my camera has rendered certain general points of agreement with their ap- pearances to our sight; but how would these little imps
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A long drink days aged them like years, and the charm of the fluff-ball is very fleeting and soon disappears with the growth of legs and feathers. There is no time to waste, as enough time goes in watching, for in continual watching lies the only chance of success for a photograph. Indeed, it is almost a case of "watch and pray," for the poor photographer often found herself praying to these little balls of quick- silver to consider the camera. "Oh, do, do just keep like that for one second," she would beg, or "Pray, pray, don't scurry so continually," or again, "If you only wouldn't persist in getting so behind one another," etc. And the little chicks would look up and blink their small impudent eyes, as much as to say, "Don't you wish you might get us?" And sometimes—well to tell the truth, rather often-—they so exasperated the exhausted photographer, that she be- The Reward appear in passing before the latest processes of photog- raphy that repeat animal activities so as to present entirely different aspects,—those that for instance are caught neither by the artist or the spectator, because hand and eye cannot work at minimum mechanical speeds of one-thousandths of a second. It is a pity that the charm of chicks is so short lived. The photographer felt this badly, as she saw her brood grow into ordinary lanky creatures with smooth heads and long legs; and before she parted from them, she was able to listen to the farmer with equanimity, and even smile at the expression "table-birds." When she visits them again. she hopes to find her little favorite dark one a plump hen, with perhaps, a little family of her own, but she will never believe any other brood could be as entertaining as this.

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