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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Lassjooing a Reindeer. 

 after strenuous work the reindeer were driven into a corral where the herders easily lassoed them. 



scented us they started off, but by 

 walking slowly and well off to the sides 

 we cut them off and got them started 

 toward the corral. A little later we saw 

 fifteen more, somewhat to one side, but 

 by making a detour we had no difficulty 

 in getting them to join the first three. 

 With the increase in numbers the deer 

 went along more quietly and confidently, 

 but we had to sprint now and then to 

 keep a certain doe where we wanted her 

 but where she did not want to stay. 

 She appeared to be quite a leader, 

 which seemed funny to us as we thought 

 the bucks always played this role, but 

 perhaps the suffragette movement has 

 begun to reach the animal kingdom also. 

 As long as we could steer that doe 

 towards the corral, we did not need to 

 give much attention to the others, who 

 followed her everywhere, but she cer- 

 tainly kept us busy at times. Rounding 

 a corner of a cliff, we came upon the 

 main body of the herd, about 400 deer, 

 feeding around a small pond in the rocks. 



They started to grunt when they saw 

 us, but showed no signs of fear, so we 

 had a pretty easy task driving them 

 towards the landing place, close to 

 which we met the herders, who had just 

 returned, and where we also had the 

 aid of the sailors from the ship. 



The great niimber of men seemed to 

 make the deer uneasy, and they tried 

 to break away, but we had them pretty 

 well cornered and after half an hour's 

 running at top speed to keep them 

 together, got about two hundred inside 

 the corral where the herders started to 

 lasso those picked for shipping. The 

 lassoing itself was easy compared with 

 the handling of the captured deer, who 

 fought with front and hind legs, as long 

 as they had a foot free. This made it 

 necessary to tie their feet up. We tried 

 the crate cases but without success. 



On board the ship they were put into 

 pens 15 X 15 feet, 6 deer in each, and 

 although we had rough weather for 

 several days, with the sea washing over 



