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month on the train. We supposed, from this, 

 that Anastasio had served as guide to an 

 Enghshman, whose home he described at the 

 Antipodes. The six months of night were, 

 perhaps, represented by the London fogs, and, 

 if he passed a month on the train, he must 

 have come by the Southern Pacific. The 

 Englishman had presented Anastasio with the 

 very undesirable gaberdine I have before de- 

 scribed. Anastasio said that the Englishman 

 shot quail in the head every time with his 

 rifle, but on meeting a band of eleven sheep 

 he fired nine shots without hitting. Anasta- 

 sio said he trembled, but I incline to think 

 that the Indian had run him out of breath. 

 Finally the Englishman secured two ewes and 

 a lamb, after three weeks of hunting. 



Look at my fortune ! A single day on the 

 mountain, and three rams to show for it ; one 

 with horns that are an abiding splendor — six- 

 teen inches around the base and forty-two 

 inches on the outer sweep. 



I thought at first that the horns made more 

 than one complete spiral, but, on leveling them 

 carefully, I saw that the entire curve would not 

 be complete without the points, which were 

 smashed off. In this connection it is only fair 



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