After the time I tried to photograph the baby, my camera was taken away from me and locked up for ever so long. Sue said I wasn\'t to be trusted with it and it would go off some day when you think it isn\'t loaded and hurt somebody worse than you hurt the baby you good-for-nothing little nuisance.

Father kept the camera locked up for about a month, and said when I see some real reformation in you James you shall have it back again. But I shall never have it back again now, and if I did, it wouldn\'t be of any use, for I\'m never to be allowed to have any more chemicals. Father is going to give the camera to the missionaries, so that they can photograph heathen and things, and all the chemicals I had have been thrown away, just because I made a mistake in using them. I don\'t say it didn\'t serve me right, but I can\'t help wishing that father would change his mind.

I have never said much about my other sister, Lizzie, because she is nothing but a girl. She is twelve years old, and of course she plays with dolls, and doesn\'t know enough[Pg 223] to play base-ball or do anything really useful. She scarcely ever gets me into scrapes, though, and that\'s where Sue might follow her example. However, it was Lizzie who got me into the scrape about my chemicals, though she didn\'t mean to, poor girl.

One night Mr. Travers came to tea, and everybody was talking about freckles. Mr. Travers said that they were real fashionable, and that all the ladies were trying to get them. I am sure I don\'t see why. I\'ve mornamillion freckles, and I\'d be glad to let anybody have them who would agree to take them away. Sue said she thought freckles were perfectly lovely, and it\'s a good thing she thinks so, for she has about as many as she can use; and Lizzie said she\'d give anything if she only had a few nice freckles on her cheeks.

Mother asked what made freckles, and Mr. Travers said the sun made them just as it makes photographs. "Jimmy will understand it," said Mr. Travers. "He knows how the sun makes a picture when it shines on a photograph plate, and all his freckles were made just in the same way. Without the sun there wouldn\'t be any freckles."

This sounded reasonable, but then Mr. Travers forgot all about chemicals. As I said, the last time I wrote, chemicals is something in a bottle like medicine, and you have to put it on a photograph plate so as to make the picture that[Pg 224] the sun has made show itself. Now if chemicals will do this with a photograph plate, it ought to do i............