FRIENDS IX FEATHERS 



The day had grown slightly warmer, but that was made up for 

 by rowing with the current, for after entering the river I need not 

 pull; but by steering could travel quite as fast as I desired. On 

 that return trip my first muscalonge showed himself. Really, in 

 the water it appeared as long as my boat. The fish must have 

 weighed fifty pounds. It was only a short way in the river 

 mouth, bewildered, no doubt, by the clear water, for it turned al- 

 most beneath my boat and went back. A magnificent big fish it 

 was. My attention was called to it by the commotion caused 

 among small fish darting in all directions to escape it. 



On my way back I had a shot with a small hand-camera at a 

 Heron on wing, but it was so far away that developing the plate 

 disclosed only a speck on the sky. I tried some Plover and a 

 Duck with better results, but that is another story. This is 

 of the Blue Heron, and is one of my best pieces of work, quite by 

 myself. 



INDIAN RIVER PLOVER 



