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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S 
CLUB. 
The Manchester Town hall was 
well filled with a large and appre- 
ciative audience at the lecture on 
Tuesday afternoon given under the 
auspices of the Manchester Woman’s 
club, by Mr. Chauncey Hawkins of 
Jamaica Plain. Mr, Hawkins is well 
known in this district as a friend of 
wild animals, a skillful hunter with 
the camera, an able lecturer and 
preacher, The subject of the after- 
noon was “Bright Eyes and Wild 
Hearts in our Northern Woods.” 
In opening Mr. Hawkins told of an 
accident after his last lecture in 
which the first three slides were 
cracked. His slides were ‘the first 
ever made from the original nega- 
tives. Usually the animal pictures 
shown are enlarged from very small 
and distant views. These were all 
taken within sixty feet of the sub- 
ject. ‘There were many amusing in- 
cidents connected with his trip for 
pictures. More than. once their canoe 
was tipped or smashed, with camera, 
lights and men thrown into the 
water. After witnessing an old cow 
carrying her calf on her back across 
a lake, mostly of mud, the guide 
thought it would be sport to ride one, 
Everything was made ready for the 
trial and after chasing a cow for 
some time the canoe was brought 
along side and Mr.- Hawkins was 
ready with his camera to snap the 
guide as he leaped from the boat onto 
the back,—instead, the guide reach- 
ed over the side and grasped the 
hide of the animal,—the next minute 
they were in the water and the cow 
fat away. In the afternoon there 
was another trial and the cow kicked 
a hole in the side of the canoe. While 
in New Brunswick Mr. Hawkins was 
desirous of snapping a particular bull 
moose, the largest he had ever seen. 
On night- they went onto the lake 
and with their lights counted forty- 
five cows and bulls around them. The 
guide, frightened in the first place, 
became more so, knowing the fight- 
ing characteristics of these animals, 
when suddenly an old cow came for 
them and smashed ithe canoe in 
pieces, they cried out in fear and 
frightened all of the animals. The 
story of Single Foot, a doe caught 
in a bear trap and carried to a lum- 
ber camp for a pet was told with 
many pictures shown. ‘The men vied 
with each other to pay and receive 
attentions of Single Foot. One day 
a shot was heard and after following 
the trail, an easy red one, Mr, Haw- 
kins found Single Foot guarded by 
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three doe and after watching awhile 
saw her go into the wood to die after 
the manner of her kind, alone. Mr. 
Hawkins had a deer as a pet and 
afterwards used her as a decoy. In this 
way many pictures were taken as 
the other animals were not afraid 
when they saw the deer. 
For the benefit of the hunters in 
the audience a picture was shown of 
six bulls with two doe in the fore- 
ground. As showing numbers this is 
the best picture in the world. 
Very few pictures of beavers have 
been taken, and especially while at 
work. .After watching seven days 
in a blind eight feet from a beaver 
dam, Mr, Hawkins succeeded in tak- 
ing a picture of two beavers at work, 
It takes a beaver about three quarters 
of an hour to cut down a tree nine 
inches in diameter. Their houses 
are built in these dams with as much 
under the water as above, with walls 
two feet thick. These freeze and 
there is a door-under the water. In 
order to keep their door from freez- 
ing the inmates take turns sitting at 
the door, tail out and by keeping 
this scale-covered tail of about three 
and a half by nine inches moving 
continually the water cannot freeze. 
Before going for bear pictures Mr. 
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Hawkins stocked up with English 
walnuts, salt port, cheese and mol- 
asses. For days he sat in a blind 
in a tree watching a molasses barrel 
as a trap for some bear. Finally his 
patience was rewarded and a fine 
picture was the result. It was dur- 
ing this trip that a report was print- 
ed in the daily papers of Boston, of 
an attack by a bear on Mr, Hawkins. 
As a matter of fact the bear was 
frighted by the click of the camera 
and ran into the only brush in sight. 
Mr. Hawkins and a guide were in 
the brush; the bear became more 
frightened and showed fight and was 
shot. After this two cubs were 
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caught and after much feeding were — 
tamed and finally taken to Jamaica 
Plain. 
Many pictures were shown of the 
bears, one standing on his hind quar- 
ters eating molasses from a cup he 
held in his paws; one eating cheese 
from a stick while sitting on a stump, 
one drinking from a bottle, and many 
with Mrs. Hawkins. After the bears 
were brought to Jamaica Plain they 
were playmates for the small boy of 
the family. - One picture showed 
Bobby in a carriage with the bear in 
the lact of pushing it. This picture 
was published in newspapers from 
