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than necessary, we hurried to take a photo- 
graph. Divesting himself of his boots and 
socks Ted got out of the boat, and standing 
up to his knees in the water, fixed up the 
camera, the legs of the tripod being also 
in the water, and focussed, giving two ex- 
posures which I rapidly estimated, and 
which proved correct. A large shoal of 
young perch, about an inch long, kept swim- 
ming between his bare legs the while, and he 
said that he could feel some of the bigger ones 
bobbing their noses against what must have 
appeared to them in their quiet water nursery 
down there, a sudden apparition of two great 
columns of white, soft, apparently edible 
substance, suddenly placed there for their 
especial benefit! The nest, which was very 
prettily situated in a little bay under some 
may bushes hanging over the water, was about 
two feet long, eighteen inches wide, and 
stood nearly a foot out of the water. It was 
a rough oval in shape, and of a green colour, 
being constructed almost entirely of the long 
still wet and fresh stems cf the floating 
