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nest enabled me to place on record at one and the same time 
his obedience and my own selfishness. 
Subsequently I took photographs of the egys at 2 ft. and at 
18 in. distance, but the size of the nest and the distance apart 
of the eggs did not lend themselves to such a process. During the 
RETRIEVER IN CRANE’S NEST. 
exposure, a peculiarly vicious insect of the horse-fly family, which 
had been pestering my horse for some time, alighted on one egg 
and so immortalized itself. 
In conclusion, I may say that I subsequently located the other 
