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post and unchained ‘ Boh.' a liver-colored pointer. who in his eagerness to join in the search had almost whinetl his life away.

We went back, and, in less time than it takes to tell it. a Woodcock ﬂushed not eighteen inches from where I had just crawled! Photograph No. sshows what I found there. The young birds were then about two rods from the nest, andvmust have remained exactly in this position for at least a halfrhour. as I took the dog hack to his

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post. got the Camera in position and took photograph N0, 5 very hastily. thcn <cttlcnl tlown aml mmlc two more exposure; with great deliberation, so a: to he \\I|'L‘ of the matter. Afterwards I sat down, lighted a cigar