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the edge of the river a few yards, they returned and swam across 

 very near to me, — within ten feet, in fact, — and landed close 

 by, where they stood and shook themselves. I was standing, 

 bent over, behind the camera all this time, not daring to move. 

 The deer were never over one hundred and fifty feet from me 

 after they first reached the river. I stood there until my back 

 nearly cracked, when at last I stood erect and threw up my 

 arms to scare them. They simply looked at me without any 

 apparent alarm. For fully five minutes there they stood, within 

 twenty-five feet of me, shaking off the water and licking them- 

 selves. When the leader got ready, she started up the steep 

 trail, and they were soon lost to view. 



Returning home, I spent a few days among the cedars, and 

 secured one fine little snap-shot. I was right at the edge of 

 the first cedars the deer would reach after crossing a great open 

 sage-brush country forty miles in width. Here at last I saw a 

 group of deer approaching. Hurriedly locating under a cedar 

 tree, I had only a few minutes to wait. Luckily, some of the 

 animals came by on the little trail I had chosen, and I caught 

 them just as a spike-buck had cast his eyes upon me. (No. 40.) 

 Among those that passed farther away were two large bucks 

 with their horns in full velvet (it was the 10th of October). 



A year later I was again watching in the cedars, near home, 

 for the coming of the mule-deer. An old Indian lookout, in 

 a big cedar where two trails joined, was selected ; and as I had 

 a brother visiting me, I placed him in the lookout with my 

 rifle, while I shot them from below with the camera. I was 



