A Glamour and a Mystery
Criminal
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The Story of Elsa and Francis
Elsa said one night, we're getting ready for bed. I've been thinking, kids, she was real cinema girl with kills. She says, what about if I draw some fairies and cut them out in cardboard? We'll stick them up in the grass and see her uncle and dad who led this camera and would take a photo. And if they see them, they'll have to believe it, I'll stop all this joking. Francis had a copy of Princess Mary's gift book. There is a poem by Alfred Nois called a spell for a fairy with illustrations by Claud A. Sheperson. It was these figures that Elsie based the fairies for the first photograph she
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