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Our Sary Emma is possessed ter be at somethin' queer; / She's allers doin' loony things, unheard of fur and near. / One time there wa'n't no limit ter the distance she would tramp / Ter get a good-fer-nothin', wuthless, cancelled postage-stamp; / Another spell folks couldn't rest ontil, by hook or crook, / She got 'em all ter write their names inside a leetle book; / But though them fits was bad enough, the wust is nowadays, / Fer now she's got that pesky freak, the photygraphin' craze.
She had ter have a camera -- and them things cost a sight -- / So she took up subscriptions fer the "Woman's Home Delight" / And got one fer a premium -- a blamed new-fangled thing, / That takes a tin-type sudden, when she presses on a spring; / And sence she got it, sakes alive! there's nothin' on the place / That hain't been pictured lookin' like a horrible disgrace: / The pigs, the cows, the horse, the colt, the chickens large and small; / She goes a-gunnin' fer 'em, and she bags 'em, one and all.