DECEIVING WILD CREATURES. 



After the ungentle follower of a proverbially 

 gentle pastoral pursuit had taken his departure 

 the sandpiper came home in a hurry. She was 

 going straight back on to her eggs, when the 

 great black eye of the camera, staring at her 



STUFFED SHEEP. 



from the sheep's chest, suddenly arrested her 

 attention. This made her jump as if someone 

 had shot at her, and flying away down the little 

 moorland beckside, she did not return for hours. 



This action puzzled me a good deal, seeing 

 that no exception had been taken to the lens at 

 the time it formed a chest eye in the stuffed bullock. 



When the bird did eventually reappear, she 



