PHOTOGRAPHING IN CLIFFS, ETC. 



one end of it, flung it over a branch, and then 

 began to hoist the photographer, minus his camera. 



The work was so difficult, , ____ 



and our progress so poor, 

 that my brother deter- 

 mined to help us in truly 

 Hibernian style. He seized 

 our portion of the rope, 

 and giving it a vigorous 

 tug, after we had actu- 

 ally succeeded in raising 

 him six or seven feet oft 

 the ground, turned him- 

 self completely upside 

 down. His foot slipped 

 out of the loop, and he 

 came down squarely on 

 his back, and knocked 

 every breath of wind out 

 of his body ; I went down 

 like a ninepin on the top 

 of our friend, and drove 

 him and a spick-and-span 

 tweed suit deep into a sea 

 of rnud and dirt produced 

 by innumerable bullocks' 



hoofs trampling to and fro through a gateway close by. 



In examining the nests of such birds as build 



amongst the slender topmost branches of tall trees, 



whither it would be dangerous to attempt to climb, 



"AMONG THE SLENDER 

 BRANCHES." 



