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judged to be one hundred yards, I made one 

 exposure after another as rapidly as possible. 

 The bull was not in sight, but we could hear 

 him crashing around through the thicker 

 timber, and bellowing in anger at another elk 

 in the distance. 



Suddenly, to my great delight, I saw his 

 majesty come into the opening and walk rap- 

 idly across between the trees. There was 

 only one opening large enough to show his 

 whole body, and into this I pointed my 

 camera ; but as one of the cows had already 

 got sight of us, I knew that my opportunities 

 were short. As the bull entered the open- 

 ing, I was as near an attack of buck-fever 

 as ever before. The resulting picture shows 

 a slight movement of the camera; but al- 

 though the sun was very low, I succeeded 

 with careful development in getting this and 

 several other satisfactory negatives. I also 

 had my small camera with me, and made sev- 

 eral exposures ; but the elk can be distin- 

 guished only by spots like the head of a pin, 

 if at all. In the mean time one of the 

 cows had fed up very close to us, and sud- 

 denly stopped in the shadow and looked 



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