124 CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



saw among wild animals, and it was done quite differ- 

 ently from what I expected. There was no pawing of 

 the ground, and no frenzied charging. One goat quietly 

 walked up to the other, and gave him a fierce thrust. 

 The victorious goat was not even scratched. I presume 

 his first thrust was fatal to the victim." 



But there are times when even the icy-nerved goat 

 becomes thoroughly frightened. In questioning Mr. 

 Phillips on this point he related the following incident: 



" The only time I ever saw a goat really frightened, 

 and show fear, was when Charlie Smith and I were 

 hunting on the head of Wilson Creek. We had sighted 

 a grizzly bear, and were following him up the side of a 

 mountain and over the summit. It took us two hours to 

 climb a distance that he covered in one. Near the sum- 

 mit the bear's trail led us through a little notch, and past 

 the base of a pinnacle of bare rock, about two hundred 

 feet high, that ran up very much like a cathedral spire. 



" Now it happened that as the bear passed through 

 the little notch he frightened an old, long-bearded billy 

 goat, who immediately started up the pinnacle as hard 

 as he could go, and climbed clear to its summit. And 

 there the old fellow stood, or rather hung, in a most 

 ridiculous attitude. His front feet were hooked over the 

 eastern edge of the point, like a man looking over the 

 peak of a steep house-roof, and holding on by his hands. 

 His body and hindlegs were well down on the other 

 side of the pinnacle, and completely overhung a fright- 

 ful precipice. 



" He was so interested in the bear that he paid no 



