76 CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



saw of the photographed mountain sheep was their dull- 

 white rump-patches flitting away northward, through the 

 dead timber and up the mountain-side, a mile away. 



May they live long, and prosper. 



Some one has said, much too easily, that mountain 

 sheep and mountain goats never inhabit the same local- 

 ity at the same time. 



As we looked for the last time at the running sheep, 

 and then mechanically glanced at the summit of the 

 mountain-side up which they were bounding fast and 

 free, we saw once more the band of five goats which for 

 days had been loafing on that isolated peak. That was 

 the band which had not received word of our baneful 

 presence. 



