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blasts down the standin' scenery, and scares the rest of the 

 game plumb outen the country.' 



" Presently John Norboe joined us, and together we 

 climbed up the point to the body of the ram which I 

 had killed. We photographed, measured, skinned and 

 weighed him. His horns measured fifteen and one-half 

 inches in basal circumference, and his weight on the 

 director's scales was two hundred and eighty-five pounds. 

 All this time the wind poured a strong blast along the 

 side of the mountain. After we had finished our work, 

 John Norboe took the skin, with the unskinned head 

 attached, and a small quantity of meat, and started for 

 camp, while Mack and I set out to investigate my bad 

 shooting. 



" On visiting the spot whereon Ram No. i had stood 

 when I fired at him, we were surprised to find blood. 

 This we trailed up, around the rocky point from which 

 I had fired, and soon found where the sheep had fallen 

 and started to roll. We found him far down, lying dead 

 within a hundred yards of the brook, where he had 

 lodged against a stout young quaking-asp. He was the 

 leader of the band, we thought, and the others which 

 ran north had hesitated after he was stricken, thus giving 

 me a chance to fire at them, also. 



" This sheep was a much larger ram than the first 

 one. He was forty-one inches high at the shoulders, the 

 way Mr. Hornaday measures animals, with the elbow 

 pushed up, and he weighed three hundred and sixteen 

 pounds. He was the largest ram I ever killed, or saw, 

 although at that time he was not in fat condition. We 



