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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



THE BRIDAL TOUR. 



flowers seemed to have tongues, ser- 

 mons and books. Thus was I given 

 a desire to record some of these won- 

 derful expressions of God's love for 

 the beautiful and the good. 



My rirst camera was an inexpensive, 



4 x 5, instrument, but it did me excel- 

 lent service because I mastered its 

 mechanism before 1 even attempted to 

 make an exposure. My conviction was 

 that if the pictures were worth having 

 they were worth the trouble of making 



A TICTURESQUE HOME BY THE RIVER. 

 (Coal River, West Virginia.) 



