THE WILD LIFE OF LAKE SUPERIOR 



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Photograph by George Shiras, 3d 



VISITING THE CARROT PATCH 



This doe selected its favorite vegetable within ten feet of the cabin containing the dining- 

 room, wherein many a haunch of venison has been served during the hunting season. At no 

 time are these night visitors seen in or about the garden in daylight. Cautious as they are, 

 many of them lose their lives in the hunting season, a few months later, in which hunts the 

 writer no longer participates (see page 191). 



the exposed game-laden plates at night- 

 fall without any scruples of being called 

 a pot-hunter. 



"By and by you will have a collection 

 of pictures affording more enjoyment 

 than all the mental ghosts of slaughtered 

 quadrupeds and all the moth-eaten relics 

 of the gun ; for, when one covers an elk 

 or a moose with his single barrel, close 

 shooting, long-focus lens, there is no 

 pulling off the hide while the coyote and 

 the birds of prey feast on a thousand 

 pounds of meat too rank in the rutting 

 season for food or too cumbersome, if 

 edible, to be generally available. 



"In each essential particular the cam- 

 era requires all the proficiency and af- 

 fords all the pleasure that a steady hand 

 and a deadly weapon ever gave a lover 

 of field sports, and more besides. 



"It is only within the last few years 

 that compact photographic appliances, 

 quick shutters, rapid dry plates and films 

 have made possible successful work on 



large game, or otherwise some of us 

 might have reformed before." 



Whatever may have been the writer's 

 particular contribution toward wild-life 

 photography in the daytime, it was of a 

 non-essential character, so far as the im- 

 mediate future was concerned, for the 

 method would soon have developed nat- 

 urally on the coming of proper apparatus. 



A year or two later Wallahan, of Colo- 

 rado, on his own initiative and with an 

 ordinary tripod camera, succeeded in get- 

 ting a remarkably beautiful series of the 

 mule deer during their descent from the 

 mountains each fall, and later, with better 

 equipment, photographed many other 

 animals in his State. 



Then Chapman, our leading ornitholo- 

 gist, began picturing birds, his collection 

 not being surpassed by any individual at 

 the present time ; followed bv Kearton, 

 of England, who soon became the fore- 

 most bird photographer across the seas. 



The next effort of the writer was to 



