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she remembered Jim’s telling one day of 
blindfolding a green pony, to get a bear 
across its back. Off came Nell’s jacket. 
Tying the sleeves about the pony’s neck, 
the girl hung the body of the jacket over 
the pony’s eyes. The animal at once stood 
still and meek beside the buck. 
Now came a tussle to get the deer on 
the pony’s back. After a few attempts, 
Nell discovered she was unequal to the 
task. A lucky thought soon brought her 
from the dilemma. A ledge a few’ yards 
away was reached by a slope. Up this 
RECREATION. 
Nell dragged the buck. Leading the pony 
beneath the ledge, she let the buck down 
into the saddle, and fastened it there with 
her lariat. Then, leading the pony, 
she made her way to camp, where 
she arrived as her father’s party came in 
from the opposite side. 
When the exclamations of surprise were 
over, Nell told her story. During the 
remaining weeks in camp, she was _ al- 
ways one of the party that made trips after 
big game. 

AGRE AT Gh Ad INGE EI@ i © Gikecciave 
TI hand you herewith a photo of my 
dog “Phil” pointing a woodcock. ! found 
the nest early in’ April: 
light 
It contained 2 
large, chocolate-colored eggs, 
WOODCOCK ON NEST. 
splashed with dark chocolate. 
ing 2 more eggs the bird commenced to 
sit. This photo was taken 2 days be- 

After lay- 
fore she hatched. The period of incuba- 
tion was 21 days. During this time we 
had a snow storm, with enough snow to 
make sleighing. The nest was on F. E. 
Larrabee’s pine tree farm, about 200 feet 
from the electric street car line, the same 
distance from the main road from Marl- 
boro to Hudson, and about the same from 
the steam railroad. It was in an open spot, 
though surrounded by brush. I exposed 
4 plates and got only one good ‘negative. 
The bird shows rather dimly in the lower 
left hand corner of the picture. 
After the photo was made we went up 
and put our hands on the woodcock before 
she took flight. 
Phil is the best bird dog in this sec- 
tion. He was sired by H. W. Eager’s 
English setter, and his dam is a Gordon. 
Fully 300 birds were shot over him before 
he was a year old, commencing at 7% 
months. He is owned by Alonzo Si- 
mons. 
Joseph P. Nourse, Hudson, Mass. 

AMATEUR PHOTO BY L. C. BURNETT JR. 
GOLDEN EAGLES AT BREAKFAST, 

