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focused on the trunk of a tree, the shutter set, and 

 slide drawn. 



Now to get the bird. None was in the immedi- 

 ate vicinity, but a whistle soon brought a response 

 from some neighboring tree tops, and going beneath 

 them I shortly had called the bird down to a nut in 

 my palm, and with him on my finger started to walk 

 the eighty or more feet to the camera. This, how- 

 ever, was asking too much, and the bird abandoned 

 his moving perch for a bordering row of evergreens, 

 from which one or two more trials brought him 

 within a short distance of the desired spot, and rest- 



A bird in the hand. 



ing my arm against the tree trunk and with the 

 other hand on the trigger of the shutter I called 

 again the two plaintive notes. The bird's faith was 

 still strong. Almost immediately he took the de- 



