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RECREATION. 



other wild beasts 

 that would prey 

 on it. He saves 

 it from the hun- 

 ter and the dog. 

 He insures it a 

 warm den in 

 which to sleep, 

 while in its nat- 

 ural habitat it 

 must be sub- 

 jected to cold 

 and to storms, 

 from which it 

 frequently suf- 

 fers severely. 



I have pur- 

 sued the study 

 of wild animals 

 and birds for 

 many years, and 



No. 3. 



have never found a greater delight in this 

 in any other way than in getting into 



No. 4. 



close touch with a few specimens domesti 

 cated. Among these, I include a lynx, ordi- 

 narily known 

 as a wildcat, 

 whose a c- 

 quaintance I 

 made 2 years 

 ago, when he 

 was on exhi- 

 bition in a 

 store window. 

 After some 

 preliminaries 

 I induced hirn 

 to pose before 

 my camera. 

 The sittings 

 were in a 

 room I have 

 arranged ex- 

 pressly for an- 

 imal photog- 

 raphy. No. 5. 



The first picture shows the cat as he re- 

 ceived a grouse I had just brought him 



from mar- 

 ket. Before 

 beginning to 

 eat, he mouth- 

 ed the bird all 

 over and 

 crushed all its 

 bones. 



The second 

 picture gives 

 an idea of the 

 wildcat's sav- 

 age voracity, 

 as he is shown 

 in the act of 

 eating. The 

 third and 

 fourth views 

 depict an in- 

 t errup ;ion 

 and show his 

 resentment at the 

 last of the series 



sinister expression of 

 interference. In the 



