@@@@@Or better than writing to the rifle club, he
By rackhamxaf, 04:02@@@@@Or better than writing to the rifle club, he could send them a picture Dalleson turned around and looked over the sand at the officers playing bridge"Hey, Leach, where the hell are you?" he bellowed A tall slim officer with a lean face and silver-rimmed glasses sat up in the sand"I'm over here, Major, what do you want?"
"Did you take your camera along?" Leach nodded dubiously"Well, bring it over, will ya?" Dalleson shoutedLeach was his assistant, a captain, in operations and training Dalleson grinned at him as he came overLeach was a good fellow, agreeable, did his work all right, anxious to please"Listen, Leach, I'd like ya to take a picture of me shooting some pebbles
"It's going to be kind of hard, MajorThis's just a little ol' box camera, and it's only got a shutter speed of one-twenty-fifth of a second"Aw hell, it'll be good enough
"Well, I'll tell you, Major, I'll be frank about it" -- Leach's voice was soft with a southern accent -- "I'd like to oblige you but I only have but three pictures left, and it's kinda hard to get film
"I'll pay you for it," Dalleson offered "Aw, no, I wasn't thinking of that, but, well, you see --"
Dalleson interrupted him"Come on, man, all I'm asking you for is a pictureWhat the hell are you gonna shoot it up of, except some of these other Joes around here?"
"All right, Major"Okay, now look, Leach, what I want is for you to get out on that spit a little bit, and I want you to get me in, of course, and the jungle in back so my friends'll know where the hell it was taken, and also I want you to get that pebble when it busts in the air
Leach looked distressed"Major, you can't get all that inThat would include a ninety-degree arc, and the angle of lens of this camera isn't more than thirty-five degrees
"Well, look, man, don't give me all those goddam facts and figuresIt seems to me it ain't that goddam hard to take a little picture
"I might be able to take you from the back with you in the foreground and tilt the camera up so it catches the pebble, but I'll tell you, Major, it's just a waste of film because that pebble isn't even gonna regis


