60 WILD LIFE AND THE CAMERA 



part of the canoe came against the edge of the 

 plate. We had many other interesting and some- 

 times tiring experiences before the series of pictures 

 was completed, and it was with great pleasure that 

 I sent in the result two days ahead of the appointed 

 time. 



This was probably the first animal story ever 

 illustrated entirely with the camera in which a 

 reaUy wild or, I should say, many wild animals were 

 used and every detail of the described scenes 

 rendered as accurately as though done with the 

 brush. Whether the results justify the labour is 

 a question. Apart from the fact that they give a 

 touch of realism and so make the story appear 

 more true, I should be inclined to answer it in the 

 negative. Such pictures are not easy to procure, 

 but there is in the making of them an element of 

 sport which is a reward for all of the hardships, 

 and further than that it takes one into the woods 

 where there is unlimited opportunity to learn 

 something of the great out of doors, where Nature 

 has always something new to tell us if we will but 

 use our ears and our eyes. And when at the end of 

 each day's work in the woods we roll ourselves up 

 in our blankets, we sleep — sleep that delicious 

 refreshing sleep of the land unknown to the 

 man who works only in the studio. 



