192 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



The desire to collect something seems to be a 

 natural desire with every healthy American boy. 

 Butterflies are among the collectable objects that 

 are most frequently sought, and there is scarcely 

 a town in the length and breadth of the United 

 States that does not contain one of these embryo 



Spider repairing Web. 



entomologists who is the proud possessor of a 

 cabinet of illy mounted butterflies which he is 

 wont to display on every possible occasion. 



Instead of chasing these dainty denizens of the 

 air, that aid so materially in completing the 

 beauty of a midsummer day, with the sole inten- 

 tion of cutting shorter their already too short 

 lives and pinning their dried bodies in a musty 



