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he raised his head and stood absolutely motion- 

 less for as much as two or three minutes while I 

 let the canoe drift. His surprise and curiosity 

 were evidently greater than his fear, and he made 

 a beautiful picture as he stood against the back- 

 ground of green foliage, his whole body reflected 

 in the clear water, in which he stood knee-deep; 

 but, as the canoe continued to drift closer to him, 

 he suddenly turned and bounded off into the 

 woods and out of sight, leaving in my mind 

 an impression of as pretty a little scene in wild 

 life as it had ever been my good fortune to look 

 upon. 



At another time, as I was passing through a 

 piece of " hammock " at Cape Sable (the southern- 

 most point of Florida), a lynx, which seemed to 

 me the biggest one I had ever seen, jumped from 

 the low herbage at my very feet and, springing 

 upon a fallen tree not over ten feet distant, stood 

 there growling, his back partly toward me and 

 his head turned over his shoulder. It made a 

 splendid study of natural wild life, and one which 

 I stopped to admire. I would have given much 

 to have been able to obtain a negative of him as 

 he stood there in all the magnificence of his 

 assumed anger, but, unfortunately for me, I did 

 not have a camera with me on either one of 

 these occasions, and so two unique opportunities 

 were lost. 



