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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 714

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log, oreven upon the ground.At such times the owlplainly shows its nature by holding to the fowleven when followed. When such stops aremade, with a little careful manoeuvering theowl may be approached near enough to bephotographed. From early experience it waslearned that a man on horseback could… … -W^ the photographing of theGreat Horned Owlundertheseconditions is not difficult: waituntil the owl seizes the fowl and stopsto rest on the return to the woods; thenlet a dog be led to within twenty or thirtyfeet of the owl, and the bird will be allattention for the dog and take no apparentnotice…

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