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IN THEORY AT ALL EVENTS. 



IT is some years ago now that I read, no matter 

 where, a few brief but eloquent sentences setting 

 forth the superior attractions of the camera over 

 the rifle. The sentiments were worded with 

 Ruskin-like charm, and found an answering echo 

 in my bosom, so that I forthwith determined to 

 lay aside for a time, if not for ever, the rifle, and 

 in future depend on the camera for records of my 

 glimpses of the wild inhabitants of forests and 

 mountains. I had no previous experience of 

 photography, but knew that an animal, taken at a 

 fair sporting range of 200 yards or so, would not 

 appear in the picture at all, or, if it did, would be 

 so small that it would require a microscope to tell 

 what it was. I therefore put myself in the hands 

 of an eminent firm of photographic dealers, and 

 confided to them my ambition, They thought it 

 a most laudable one naturally and were full of 

 suggestions. What they eventually recommended 

 was a portable box camera, with " 's Telephoto 



