Author: Carroll Lewis (Dodgson Charles Lutwidge) Title: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S DAY OUT Source: http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/Caroll/Complete Subject: ENGLISH FICTION (823)
A PHOTOGRAPHER'S DAY OUT I AM shaken, and sore, and stiff, and bruised. As I have told you many times already, I haven't the least idea how it happened and there is no use in plaguing me with any more questions about it. Of course, if you wish it I can read you an extract from my diary, giving a full account of the events of yesterday, but if you expect to find any clue to the mystery in that, I fear you are doomed to be disappointed. August 23, Tuesday. They say that we Photographers are a blind race at best; that we learn to look at even the prettiest faces as so much light and shade; that we seldom admire, and never love. This is a delusion I long to break through--if I could only find a young lady to photograph, realizing my ideal of beauty--above all, if her name should be--(why is it, I wonder, that I dote on the name Amelia more than any other word in the English language?)--I feel sure that I could shake off this cold, philosophic lethargy. The time has come at last. Only this evening I fell in with young Harry Glover in the Haymarket--`Tubbs!he shouted, slapping me familiarly on the back, `my Uncle wants you down to-morrow at his Villa, camera and all!But I know your uncle,I replied, with

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