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CHAPTER XV 



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Camp-Fire Tales 212 



Charlie Smith's Story — An Outlaw in Camp — A Silent Death Sentence 

 — The Pursuers of Tom Savage Find Him — -His Fate — John Norboe 

 Introduces Old John Campbell — Trying to be Chased by a Grizzly — 

 The Bear that Fell into the Fire. 



CHAPTER XVI 



More Camp-Fire Yarns 221 



The Charge of The Duchess — The Death of the Duke of Wellington — 

 The Horror of the Rocks — The Sheep that Couldn't be Caught — 

 The Matches that Wouldn't Light. 



CHAPTER XVII 



A Great Mountain Sheep Hunt 235 



Variations in Sheep Hunting — Artistic Value of Scenery in Hunting — ^John 

 Norboe' s Peril — Camp Necessity — Remarkable Goat Licks — Sheep 

 Signs — A Very Long Stalk — Attack in a Wind Storm — Misses and 

 Hits — Mack Norboe's '« Hungers" — Three Dead Rams— A Night 

 of Terror. 



CHAPTER XVIII 



Mountain Sheep Notes 250 



The Culminating Point ot a Species — Measurements of Record Heads — 

 Range of the Big-Horn — The White Sheep — The Black Sheep — 

 Fannin's Sheep — Fighting Noses of our Specimens — Reinforcement 

 of the Neck — Captain Radcliffe's Opinion About Broken Tips — 

 Measurements of our Sheep — Comparative Dimensions of Sheep, 

 Goat and Mule Deer — Comparison of Sheep and Goat — Enemies 

 of Mountain Sheep — Impending Extinction in British Columbia. 



CHAPTER XIX 

 A Panoramic Grizzly-Bear Hunt 265 



Luck as a Factor in Bear Hunting — An Exhausting Climb — A Silver-Tip 

 Sighted — Mr. Phillips and Mack Run for it — -A Summit Stroll Be- 

 tween the Acts — The Ball Opens — A Long Chase — Snap-Shots 

 Only, and at Long Range — A Good Long Shot — Mack's Fusillades 

 — A Foot-Shot Bear, and Chaff for the Victors. 



