HUNTING DEER IN THE ADIRONDACKS 
beside us but we could not see through 
the leafy wall of alders. It was evident 
that, until the water lowered, work on 
the stream was useless, so we next tried 
a “salt lick’? above camp. A month 
before we came, Courtenay Brandreth 
had filled an old log half full of salt and 
it was now so torn and pawed that the 
story was there for all to read. 
The lick lay in a lovely spot beside 
the water under two splendid pine trees, 
This little doe returned again and again, 
insatiably curious to solve the mystery of the 
camera. She was always easily frightened how- 
ever, and it took ten hours of crouching in the 
blind to obtain the film 
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In the 
bushes across the stream we concealed 
veritable castles in the air. 
one of Dr. Chapman’s bird blinds, which 
consists of a huge green bag kept open 
by a spread umbrella supported in the 
ground. Inside we placed the motion- 
picture camera and settled ourselves on 
two camp stools with books and a rifle. 
All the afternoon we waited, kept in a 
fever of excitement by a deer which 
snorted and stamped in the forest behind 
the alders. 
Startled by the whir of the hidden motion- 
picture camera, she stood for only a few sec- 
among 
onds. [From motion-picture film] 
