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Show Miscellany A Famous Photographer of Cats In the pr I Amer an Magaz ne ap pears an account of Charles h B Hard the most fan o s and successful photog rapher of cats n Amer ca He began as a New England country fhotog rapher Follow ng is an extract from the story of Mr Bullard Mr B Hard s the most tamo s photographer of cats in America For years he has made a comfortable in come from the sale of h s topyr ghted pi otographB of cats Thousands o b s c it p tures are sold annuall n every large c ty n the co ntry from ew York to San Franc so If you ha e a treasured post card or calendar 1 ow ng tabl y in some unn ng pose, look down u the corner aud )c will often real this legend Coiyrght by ( F B Hard Mr B I ard has taken five h ndrod photog n hs of cats n e ery con e ab e pose I or many years Mr B liar 1 was a co nt photographer in the v llage of Peterboro nd d dn t make a y noro money than country photographers sunlly uke Then one aj o got wl at a gambler calls a h n h an 1 1 cgan cat i hotograpl s aln ost exol 8 ely His fr onds thought h n c a?y ih friends always th nl whe a a has an or ginal i lea and a ts on t Now when h s fr ends speal of h m they nvariably all I 1 new h n when Let Mr Bullard himself toll how this happens 1 ' It was back in i897 when I first began to photograph cats he sa 1 rem n scently One day I was acs ng a i lace and saw a big wh to ut on 1 a I ttnr of k ttonB They made a pretty p ture all went to my st I got camera a d camo bn k to take tl e pict ro Well I wo Idn t 1 re tell vo how n lntew I spoilo 1 I f e I u t o o st to n I ng I 1 p I tl I I i t hi u w wo si i n I tt h on o u t I 1 v es Til e f N H II I I H HO M ot f Po 1 nr a 1 r I f s f N v H I in I ot t os w 1 o were sta ng at Dubl n began to stop at my st d o and rave over that cat p cture I co ldn t pr nt cop es fabt enough "I arr ed at the conclus on that f people went on so over th s p cture they woul 1 lie other p tures of cats I had alwaS been ery fond of cats and fo nd that they returne I n y affect on I borrowed all the cats in my ne ghborhood But I soon f o nd that t was no easy iob to photograph a cat He s ery unreasonable as to stay ng wl ere he s p t and the only system is to se nnn te pat ence I ha e worl ed half a lay trying to photograph a cat n a part c lar pose, and then had to g ve up n despa r ' |