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instant he rose, and caught a fine picture at the short distance 

 of twenty-four steps. Going on towards camp, I got an exposure 

 on two bucks in the aspens, but they are invisible except their 

 heads. That finished our negatives for that trip. 



Once more I camped on the trail near home. I tried the 

 cedars, the gulch, and the sand ridge, but fortune did not favor 

 me until one morning when I moved ahead to another ridge 

 and, after fixing the camera, walked to the top to look over. I 

 heard steps close by on the other side, and returned to the 

 camera just in time to turn it in the direction of the deer. I 

 had no chance to raise it before a doe poked her head over. 

 The others came up until they were all looking over (No. 67), 

 and then at last I exposed. It was barely sunrise, and the glint 

 of the morning light was on their eyes. They smelled my tracks 

 where I had been when I heard them first, and, scenting dan- 

 ger, retreated, but only across a gulch, where they lay down 

 within two hundred yards of me. An hour or more later 

 another band appeared, this time on the trail, and I allowed 

 them to approach within thirty-five steps before calling them 

 to "attention." (No. 68.) Even then they could see nothing 

 to run from, so, turning off the trail a little, pursued their 

 journey. 



