. Wild nature's ways . began to reverse the positionof my dark slide with all the deftness I couldcommand, intending to indulge in another shot; DECEIVING WILD CREATURES. 41 but he heard me, and, running away, commencedto call loudly to his mate for what subsequentlyturned out to be a change of places. When the female arrived upon the scene, sheproved to be an exceedingly shy and wary fowl,walking round and round, back and forth, callingto her young ones ah the time, but never onceventuring to sit down and cover them. I man-aged, through a fortunate improvement in theweather, to secure one sna
. Wild nature's ways . began to reverse the positionof my dark slide with all the deftness I couldcommand, intending to indulge in another shot; DECEIVING WILD CREATURES. 41 but he heard me, and, running away, commencedto call loudly to his mate for what subsequentlyturned out to be a change of places. When the female arrived upon the scene, sheproved to be an exceedingly shy and wary fowl,walking round and round, back and forth, callingto her young ones ah the time, but never onceventuring to sit down and cover them. I man-aged, through a fortunate improvement in theweather, to secure one snapshot of her, and thenabandoned ah further effort, having knelt fortwo and a half hours, with water dripping steadilydown the back ofmy neck from theroof sods of theemergency hide-up. The chickswere soon strone:enough to leavethe nest, and Iphotographed oneof them directly ithad done so. On rare occa-sions the natural-ist photographeris favoured bycircumstances inthe matter of. YOUNG GOLDEN PLOVER. 42 WILD NATURES WAYS.
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