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finally accomplished it, pulled the precious instru- 
ment on board, covered it with the rubber cloth, 
and let the rain beat down. ‘ 
After the shower had passed, I proceeded to 
arrange the camera again. Learning wisdom by 
experience, I pushed the boat across to the opposite 
side of the area of grass where the nests were—a 
distance of about the length ot my thread—planted 
a pole firmly in the freday bottom, tied the thread 
to it, and then poled back to the camera with the 
otlier end of the thread, which I fastened to the 
shutter. In this way there was less danger of pull- 
ing the thread prematurely, or of getting it en- 
tangled in the grass. ‘Then I rowed around to the 
pole by way of the open water, tied the boat to the 
pole, and lay down on the bottom, thread in hand, 
to await developments. 
After quite a while the Grebes began to swim 
back in small parties, and promenade up and down 
“Broadway.” ‘Two of them approached their nests, 
and climbed up awkwardly upon them. The 
purpose was to cover their eggs more perfectly than 
in their haste they had done when the boat was 
approaching. As soon as this had been accom- 
plished, they slid off into the water and rejoined 
their companions. Unfortunately they were not 
quite in the range of the camera, so I lost a splendid 
chance for an interesting picture. I thought that 
in the course of things they would all go rele but 
time passed, and not Bother one did so. ib ire lle I 
rowed over there and uncovered some of the eggs, 
hoping that this would induce the owners to come 
and cover them. 
