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judged to be one hundred yards, I made one 
exposure after another as rapidly as possible. 
The bull was not in sight, but we could hear 
him crashing around through the thicker 
timber, and bellowing in anger at another elk 
in the distance. 
Suddenly, to my great delight, I saw his 
majesty come into the opening and walk rap- 
idly across between the trees. There was 
only one opening large enough to show his 
whole body, and into this I pointed my 
camera; but as one of the cows had already 
got sight of us, I knew that my opportunities 
were short._ As the bull entered the open- 
ing, I was as near an attack of buck-fever 
as ever before. The resulting picture shows 
a slight movement of the camera; but al- 
though the sun was very low, I succeeded 
with careful development in getting this and 
several other satisfactory negatives. I also 
had my small camera with me, and made sev- 
eral exposures; but the elk can be distin- 
guished only by spots like the head of a pin, 
if at all.: Inthe mean time one of jthe 
cows had fed up very close to us, and sud- 
denly stopped in the shadow and looked 
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