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to be used with all your skill and 

 care. But y< iu musl be all in all. \ i >u 

 never will win the anastigmal till the 

 rectilinear is dead, dead, dead. Then 

 if you give your whole heart to the 

 work, you may win the favor of this 

 high-born pet4onage. And when won 

 — what a treasure! In a way that you 

 never even dreamed of, it, for the first 

 time, reveals to your admiring gaze, 

 that first of all created things, created 

 when "God said. Let there be light: 

 and there was light," and you will say, 

 "If there ever conies a time when I lose 

 yon, then comes too the death of my 

 camerist life." 



O Dagor and Celor — all honor to yon 

 and to the patient, persistent, skilled 

 and learned men who have produced 

 you. 



and sin mid he owned by every natural- 

 ist who wishes to keep photographic 

 re< i >rds < if his pets. Except on extremely 

 brighl days the shadow from the wire 

 netting is not visible in the photograph 

 and even then it may easily be elimi- 

 nated by attaching a white sheet to the 

 screen by means of a hook at each cor- 

 ner of the netting. 



The outside bench at the end of the 

 cage is designed for experiments with 

 animals which are not likely to escape, 

 such as snakes, turtles and other slowly 

 moving or very tame pets. Since this 

 photograph was taken an inner work- 

 bench has been devised with three large 

 plates of glass attached so that the 

 specimens may be confined within a 

 transparent box. 



A Photographic Cage. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the writer in his photographic cage 

 where he is posing an opossum for its 

 portrait. Such a cage is inexpensive. 



How to Make "Fuzzy" Photographs. 



I recently advertised for sharp photo- 

 graphs, not the fuzzy, foggy kind. 

 These were for The Guide to Nature, 

 and also "Nature and Science," of the 

 "St. Nicholas" magazine. Perhaps the 



A CONVENIENT AND EFFECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC CAGE. 

 With inside and outside optical benches. 



