American Big-Game Hunting 
more in the open, and travel incessantly in 
search of food. 
It is highly interesting to watch them, 
when one has the chance, turning over 
stones, tearing open fallen trees, or rooting 
like a pig in some favorite spot. Acres upon 
acres even of hard, stony ground they will 
turn up, and in other places it would be dif- 
ficult to find a stone or rock they had not 
displaced. They will undermine and dig out 
great stumps. Ant-hills you will find lev- 
eled, and the thrifty squirrels, who have la- 
bored all the previous fall to make a cache of 
pine nuts, are robbed on sight. 
One spring, the work on the ranch being 
done, Woody and I took our pack-horses and 
proceeded to the mountains after bears. I 
had no sooner picked out a good camping- 
ground than it began to snow, and for four 
days we could not stir from camp. How- 
ever, it finally cleared off, the sun came out 
bright and warm, and the little stream that 
we were on began boiling, tearing, and rush- 
ing along, full to the banks, causing us to 
move our camp back to higher ground. 
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