PHOTOGRAPHING IN CLIFFS, ETC. 



one end of it, flung it over a branch, and then 

 began to hoist the photographer, minus his camera. 



The work was so difficult, , 



and our progress so poor, 

 that my brother deter- 

 mined to help us in truly 

 Hibernian style. He seized 

 our portion of the rope, 

 and giving it a vigorous 

 tug, after we had actu- 

 ally succeeded in raising 

 him six or seven feet oft 

 the ground, turned him- 

 self completely upside 

 down. His foot slipped 

 out of the loop, and he 

 came down squarely on 

 his back, and knocked 

 every breath of wind out 

 of his body ; I went down 

 like a ninepin on the top 

 of our friend, and drove 

 him and a spick-and-span 

 tweed suit deep into a sea 



, , ,. "AMONG THE SLENDEK 



of mud and dirt produced BRANCHES." 



by innumerable bullocks' 



hoofs trampling to and fro through a gateway close by. 



In examining the nests of such birds as build 



amongst the slender topmost branches of tall trees, 



whither it would be dangerous to attempt to climb, 



