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WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



I had taken the precaution to have well within 

 the hole in the side of the sham rock and I 

 made a time exposure upon her, which resulted 

 in the full -page illustration over leaf. 



So completely was this characteristically cun- 



■ ning bird deceived, 

 and so silently did 

 I work in exposing 

 plates and changing 

 dark slides, that she 

 never suspected any- 

 thing wrong, and in 

 her fancied security 

 k(^pt closing her eyes 

 and taking brief 

 naps. 



After a while, 

 ])hotographing the 

 curlew on her nest 

 became a thin*^ of 

 such monotonous 

 ease that I wanted 

 an opportunity of 

 securing more pictures of her in the act of coming 

 home, but was at luy wits' end to know how to 

 dismiss her without undue fright or the giving 

 away of any information in regard to my presence. 

 At last, by a lucky inspiration, I hit upon the idea 

 of mewing like a cat. This made her all alertness 





CURLEW 



ABOUT TO SIT DOWN ON EGGS. 



