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will follow in the track of any animal, sometimes 

 even for days or weeks, regardless of danger, toil, 

 or exposure, until the desired picture is obtained. 

 Of these Mr. A. G. Wallihan of Colorado is, per- 

 haps, the most indefatigable, and he has to his 

 credit some truly marvellous results of his hunting. 



With an eight by ten camera on his back and a 

 pack of hounds he considers it nothing to follow 

 in the tracks of a cougar for miles over the rough- 

 est country and through deep snow, hanging on 

 with a grim tenacity, until his quarry is treed, 

 then approaching with his camera, while his 

 dogs hold the creature at bay, sometimes even 

 climbing the same tree in which the cougar has 

 sought refuge, regardless of the danger of so 

 close an approach to the enraged beast, until he 

 is near enough to obtain such a picture as he 

 wishes. 



His results, however, must be a sufficient 

 recompense to him for all his hard work and ex- 

 posure to imminent danger, for his photographs 

 are, undoubtedly, the most remarkable products 

 of the camera in the line of nature work that 

 have ever been made and will so stand for some 

 time. The most remarkable one of them all that 

 I have seen is, to my mind, one in which he 

 photographed the cougar as he sprang at him 

 from a tree-top and which actually shows the 

 animal in mid-air. 



