Big Game in the Rockies 
past you. The only safe rule is to travel high 
and keep working up above their feeding- 
grounds. In the spring of the year they are 
much easier to kill than in the fall, for then 
the heavy winter snows have driven them out 
of the mountains, and they come low down 
after the fresh green grass. The rams are then 
in bands, having laid aside the hostility that 
later in the year seems to possess each and 
every one of them. 
I was much interested once in watching a 
band of eight rams, all of them old fellows. 
They would feed early in the morning and 
then betake themselves to a large rock which 
stood on a grassy slope, where they would 
play for hours. One of them would jump on 
the rock and challenge the others to butt him 
off. Two or three would then jump up, and 
their horns would come together with a clash 
that I could hear from my position, which was 
fully a quarter of a mile away. On one occa- 
sion I saw them suddenly stop their play and 
each ram became fixed; there the little band 
stood as though carved out of stone. They 
remained that way for quite half an hour with- 
out a movement. I could not detect with the 
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