American Big-Game Hunting 
fell from the mist, and the banks of clouds were 
still driving across the higher peaks, but dur- 
ing the day the sun slowly got the better of 
them. Again we saw a solitary goat, this 
time far below down the ridge we had chosen. 
Like the sheep, these animals watch the val- 
ley. There is no use in attempting to hunt 
them from there. Their eyes are watchful 
and keen, and the chances are that if you are 
working up from below and see a goat on the 
hill, he will have been looking at you for some 
time. Once he is alarmed, ten minutes will 
be enough for him to put a good many hours 
of climbing between himself and you. His 
favorite trick is to remain stock-still, watch- 
ing you till you pass out of his sight behind 
something, and then he makes off so ener- 
getically that when you see him next he will 
be on some totally new mountain. But his 
intelligence does not seem to grasp more 
than the danger from below. While he is 
steadfastly on the alert against this, it ap- 
parently does not occur to him that anything 
can come down upon him. Consequently 
from above you may get very near before you 
are noticed. The chief difficulty is the noise 
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