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course, as much longer than this as you desire. 

 The longer the better. 



In selecting your camera and apparatus for this 

 work, strength should be the first consideration, 

 for, in the trips over exceedingly rough country, 

 which you will be obliged to take, it will receive 

 some hard knocks. Especial care should be 

 taken in the selection of plate-holders, and all 

 those that are at all flimsy in their construction 

 should be discarded. But all this I have spoken 

 of in the chapter on apparatus, and it is only 

 necessary to add here that in this particular 

 branch the outfit will be liable to be subjected 

 to the severest tests and therefore greater care 

 should be exercised in its selection for this work 

 than for any other, or otherwise many exposures 

 will be lost. 



When out looking for subjects in the woods 

 and, especially, when following up watercourses 

 in a boat or canoe, always have your reflex in 

 your hands with the plate-holder inserted, the 

 shutter set, and everything in readiness for instant 

 use, for you can never tell when you may get a 

 chance for an exposure. 



Once, in Florida, when going up the Miami 

 River in a canoe, on rounding a sharp bend I sud- 

 denly came upon a deer drinking at the edge of 

 the water. He was not over twenty-five yards 

 from me, and as he heard the swish of my paddle 



