. The Saturday evening post. I BY DOUGLAS «YA* FATHER bought it. At the time there was alreadyone in the family—a primeval, hard-shell, brownleather over board covers thing, embossed withcurlicues that once were golden; that variety—small,fat and square. It was pretty shabby, though, and onlytook the carte de visite size, and many of the slits that youshoved the pictures through were broken at the corners andlet quite dignified persons slant drunkenly askew or tumbleignominiously on the floor, where you had a dickens of atime picking them up and sorting them out, thus delayingthe game and susp
. The Saturday evening post. I BY DOUGLAS «YA* FATHER bought it. At the time there was alreadyone in the family—a primeval, hard-shell, brownleather over board covers thing, embossed withcurlicues that once were golden; that variety—small,fat and square. It was pretty shabby, though, and onlytook the carte de visite size, and many of the slits that youshoved the pictures through were broken at the corners andlet quite dignified persons slant drunkenly askew or tumbleignominiously on the floor, where you had a dickens of atime picking them up and sorting them out, thus delayingthe game and suspending the interest of whomever youwere entertaining with a sight of them. So it was even-tually removed from its place on the center table to motherstop bureau drawer, and the newer cabinets were dis-tributed about the house as they came in. Luella got most of the new ones—mainly in exchangeand outside of the family. She took a good picture her-self, did Luella. Of course you didnt get her coloring andcomplexion, and
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