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the decay of such a cloud, beginning 

 from below, and see the basal portion 

 gradually fade away, until at last only 

 a tangle of the high summit, cirrus 

 (snow cloud), portion, overhanging 

 the former cumulus portion, remains 

 as a witness of the previous existence 

 of a shower, of this preeminently in- 

 teresting phenomenon of cloudland. 



How few there are who know that, 

 in general, the wispy, lace-like cirrus, 

 the highest of all the clouds, originates 

 in this most interesting way, above 

 showers and general storms. Other 

 cloud forms are scarcely less interest- 

 ing in the manner of their formation 

 and dissolution. The lofty, fleecy 

 cirro-cumulus, the so-called cap cloud, 

 the fair weather cumulus, the more 

 somber stratus and nimbus, the hur- 

 rying scud cloud, even the bands of 

 fog cloud drawn veil-like, perhaps, 

 across the mountain flanks, each have 

 a charm of their own and a most in- 

 teresting history. Surely we can find 

 inspiration and delight in looking up, 

 in viewing the ever changing pano- 

 rama of cloudland. 



One who loves and derives keen en- 

 joyment from them cannot but feel a 



keen regret that so many travel life's 

 pat li way with unseeing eyes, with 

 never an appreciative look upward at 

 the glories there revealed. 



May the time hasten on when people 

 in general will all be "weather wise," 

 and lovers of the beautiful in cloud 

 and mist land. 



Additional Examples of Photographic 

 Deception. 



BY EDWARD F. BIGELOW, ARCADIA, SOUND 

 BEACH, CONN. 



The publication, in our September 

 number, of the article entitled "Some 

 Commendable Frauds," with sample 

 photographs, has brought so many in- 

 terested inquiries and favorable com- 

 ments upon the character of this very 

 skillful work that we have decided to 

 publish more. 



In their line, these photographs are 

 masterpieces. Nothing similar and 

 nothing nearly so good has reached 

 our desk. We do not know whether 

 these were made by the time-honored 

 process of patching together various 

 photographs under different degrees of 

 enlargement ; but we do know that, 



The U\odernVarmer 



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NO. 7— "EVEN THE POULTRY FANCIER HAS BEEN KNOWN TO EXAGGERATE." 



