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myriads upon the sidewalks and were A friend counted over eighty in one 



tramped under foot by the hundreds restaurant window and as many dead 



and thousands. In some cases they an- on the sidewalk just without, lhat 



noyed the late diners in the hotels and any specimens survived after coming 



the people coming from the theatres, into town is doubtful. 



Some Good Work With the Camera, good sitter although he was probably 



One of our faithful nature workers unconscious of the presence of the 



is Mr. Frank Grafton, of Chester, West camera. But incidentally it conveys 



Virginia. He has learned the art of to us the important lesson that the 



THE GROUND HOG WAS A GOOD SITTER— NOT 

 A HAIR MOVED. 



using a camera on things that are not 

 only beautiful and interesting but that 

 have one or more points of real inter- 

 est. Take, for example, the accom- 

 panying photograph of the ground hog 

 or woodchuck. Mr. Grafton informs 

 us that the plate was exposed for 

 about five seconds because of the lack 

 of light at the mouth of the burrow 

 and yet see how imperturbable is the 

 woodchuck. There is not the slightest 

 sign of motion. He was evidently a 



THE ARCHED OAK. 



