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post and unchained ' Bob,' a liver-colored pointer, who in his eagerness to 

 join in the search had almost whined his life away. 



We went back, and, in less time than it takes to tell it, a Woodcock flushed 

 not eighteen inches from where I had just 

 crawled ! Photograph No. 5 shows what I 

 found there. The young birds were then 

 about two rods from the nest, andmust have 

 remained exactly in this position for at least 

 a half-hour, as I took the dog back to his 



No. 2. WOODCOCK ON NEST 



post, got the camera in position and took photograph No. 5 very hastily, 

 then settled down and made two more exposures with great deliberation, 

 so as to be sure of the matter. Afterwards I sat down, lighted a cigar 



