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focused on the trunk of a tree, the shutter set, and 
slide drawn. 
Now to get the bird. None was in the immedi- 
ate vicinity, but a whistle soon brought a response 
from some neighboring tree tops, and going beneath 
them I shortly had called the bird down to a nut in 
my palm, and with him on my finger started to walk 
the eighty or more feet to the camera. This, how- 
ever, was asking too much, and the bird abandoned 
his moving perch for a bordering row of evergreens, 
from which one or two more trials brought him 
within a short distance of the desired spot, and rest- 
26. A bird in the hand. 
ing my arm against the tree trunk and with the 
other hand on the trigger of the shutter I called 
again the two plaintive notes. The bird’s faith was 
still strong. Almost immediately he took the de- 
