The White Goat and his Country 
Not so a goat mama of which T 
also told me. Some prospectors came on a 
bunch of goats when the kids were young 
enough to be caught. One of the men cap- 
tured a kid, and was walking off with it, when 
the mother took notice and charged furiously 
down on him. He flew by in ignominious 
sight of the whole camp with the goat after 
him, till he was obliged to drop the kid, which 
was then escorted back to its relatives by its 
most competent parent. 
Yet no room for generalizing is here. We 
cannot conclude that the Ursus family fails 
to think blood as thick as other people do. 
These two incidents merely show that the 
race of bears is capable of producing unma- 
ternal females, while, on the other hand, we 
may expect occasionally to find in a nanny- 
goat a Mother of the Gracchi. 
I wished to help carry the heavy hide of the 
second billy; but T inflicted this upon 
himself, “every step to camp,” he insisted, 
“for punishment at disappointing you.” The 
descent this day had been bad enough, 
taking forty minutes for some four hundred 
yards. But now we were two hours getting 
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