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free, and we had scarcely got started through the first cedars 

 before "Music" had a cat up and going. After a short run we 

 all brought up at a hole in the bank, where "bobby" had 

 taken refuge. There was no getting him out, so we barri- 

 caded his door and went on. Another was soon found and 

 gave us a pretty good run, circling round and round the cedars, 

 which were not over one half mile in diameter. Eventually 

 he climbed a good tree on a hillside, so that I could get on 

 the upper side of the tree and be nearly on a level with him. 

 After I took a snap at him at about twenty-three feet (No. 2), 

 we drove him out and the dogs had another short run. At 

 this tree I got within fifteen feet (No. 3), according to the 

 focussing scale on my camera. I used the eighteen-inch focus 

 lens, which was the back lens of a rectigraphic, and is composed 

 of three lenses. We chased him out again, and at the next 

 tree I fixed for a jumping picture, but he went out so far around 

 from me as to be out of sight ; however, I caught him run- 

 ning (No. 4), with "Hector" a close second. In the upper 

 left-hand corner you can see the snow in the air that he 

 knocked off the tree in jumping out, and the trails the dogs 

 made running through the snow are also shown. When 

 he next treed we could not see him, so drove him out again. 

 This time he made a sharp double on the dogs, and they all 

 overran but one. Then he came back close to Wells and me, 

 and stopped under a cedar, the limbs of which grew out near 

 the ground. When "Jeff" — one of the dogs — ran under 

 them, the cat sprang at once on his back, and set his teeth 



