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DAYLIGHT : COW MOOSE PHOTOGRAPHED AT EIGHT EEET EROM BLIND . 



Drinking quarts of saline-sulphur water at a New Brunswick natural lick; dark afternoon; 



one-second exposure 



the twenty-five feet, at which the cameras 

 were focused. 



Then a great flash, a heavy boom and 

 all was silent for a moment as the smoke 

 of the magnesium powder drifted away. 

 By this time both paddles were in the 

 water, and we were preparing for the 

 worst. Yet there he stood, his jaws — 

 now silent — the picture of what — anger 

 or fear? 



Before the question could be answered, 

 down went the great head with a splash 



beneath the muddy surface. Was he 

 going to turn himself into a submarine 

 boat and spike us from below ? No ; he 

 was simply engaged in pulling up another 

 succulent lily root for his supper, satis- 

 fied that the little jacklight, behind which 

 nothing could be seen, was but a trifling, 

 insignificant thing, while the bright flash 

 and the boom was a rather weak sort of a 

 thunder storm. 



Reloading the flash, reversing the 

 plate holder, and waiting until the head 



