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ment that has been built for their amusement. But it is 

 unwise to hope that in New York these delicate young 

 creatures will live long. If any one of the five is alive 

 two years hence, we will rejoice, and call it good fortune. 



And so has ended, in our mountain goat corral; in 

 the mammal hall of the Carnegie Museum; and in this 

 volume, our trip to a wonderland of fine mountains and 

 grand game. The animal life of our hunting-ground 

 was not appreciably afifected by our rifles. Excepting 

 our grizzly bears, we shot no females. We made thor- 

 ough use of everything we killed, we left behind us no 

 wounded animals, and excepting the mule deer, we con- 

 verted each animal shot by us into a preserved specimen. 

 Four museums now have specimens from our twelve 

 head of game. 



May heaven keep my memory of it all as fresh as the 

 breezes that blow on Goat Pass, as green as the pines and 

 spruces that clothe the lower slopes of those delectable 

 mountains. 



FAREWELL 



