Show AFRAID OF THE CAMERA futile efforts of a hunter to aali an india i basoa the dislike of some people photographers chair may be due to a natural shrinking from auy anything thing like personal publicity or more likely to feelings of wounded vanity because the camera persists in representing them as they are rather than as they imagine themselves to be neither of these considerations can be supposed to have influenced the indian bison of whom mr R H elliott tells the atory says youths companion mr elliott is a devoted sportsman but also a lover of wild animals as living beings at one time he desired to secure pictures of the indian bison an animal which to his regret lebs and less common under the persecution of reckless hunters to this end he sent one of his european em aloyes out to photograph a solitary bull choosing for the purpose a bit of grassy ground in a detached piece of jungle sure enough a bull came slowly along grazing as he went he ap preached within ten paces of the man the opportunity was of the very best but as ill luck would have it the bison looked up just as the photographer removed the cap from the camera at sight of the lens which he perhaps mistook for the glaring eye of some new kind of tiger ho whirled about and rushed madly into alie jungle leaving the photographer disappointed |