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Show Nettie, Page 28 Taggart wagon and Nettie and Becky Taggart joined their young curious friend in staring at the man, whose name they now heard repeated as Mr. Cutler. Nettie fired her questions at Becky instead. "What is a photograph or a camera?" "The camera is a kind of machine that explodes and after they take it apart and do something to it, you get what is called a photograph--a kindofpicture of what the machine was aimed at," Becky tried her best to explain. "Would you like to go with me while I take some photographs?" Mr. Cutler asked. The girls all chorused their agreement and when Capt. Taggart agreed it was permissible they followed Mr. Cutler up the mountainside where he set up the odd contraption and aimed it back down the slope at the assortment of wagons gathered together. Mr. Cutler spoke lovingly and knowingly about film and plates and exposure while he worked at setting up the camera, and he cautioned them to stand back as a stick he held in his hand surely did explode, just as Becky had said. But the girls understood little of how the camera really worked. They only knew that a couple of days later Mr. Cutler came back with several pieces of stiff board-like paper showing all the wagons and countryside and people faithfully reproduced in miniature. Nettie shook her head in wonder. At last the morning came, cold and stormy, when all the wagons were assembled and Company Two moved out on the beginning of their 300-mile journey. Nettie skipped along the wagon or ran between the |