DECEIVING WILD CREATURES. 



MOUNTED ON THE 

 IMITATION OX. 



injured, it was 

 several times mis- 

 taken, when out in 

 the fields, for a hve 

 animal. 



One day, whilst 

 covering it over 

 with a cloth during 

 the on-coming of a 

 shower of rain, a 

 labourer walking by 

 on a path some 

 thirty yards away called out to me, " What's 

 wrong with him, mister?" "Lost his clock- 

 works," I answered jocularly. i\Iy interrogator 

 growled something in the ruddy phrase of his 

 kind to the effect that he was in possession of 

 too many of the qualities of a fly to be deceived 

 by anything like the young of a goat, and went 

 on, considerably aggrieved by what he took to 

 be silly facetiousness on my part. 



The skin of the bullock is stretched over a 

 wooden framework, rendering it strong enough to 

 carry the weight of a man, and at the same 

 time sufficiently light to be easily deported on 

 the shoulder as shown in our illustrations. Ad- 

 mission to the interior is gained through a long 

 horizontal slit in the skin of the underparts, and 

 the camera, minus the legs of the tripod, fixed 



