American Big-Game Hunting 
salt-lick in the woods, which we approached 
quietly, thinking game might be there. 
When we reached the edge, we saw a big 
cow elk standing among the trees on the 
other side of the open space, and directly 
after, another one lying down in the high 
grass near the first, only her head and neck 
being visible. She saw us, but did not stir. 
Keeping perfectly still and looking closely, 
we discovered seven or eight more, but none 
with horns. Finally, stepping forward, think- 
ing we had seen them all, a great number 
jumped up, going out like a covey of quail. 
Some had been lying down in the high grass 
within twenty yards of us, and could not have 
known of our presence. They made a great 
noise and crashing as they scurried off, and 
we could only guess at their numbers, but 
there must have been thirty or forty. 
There were not many bears about here. 
We saw the tracks of several very big ones, 
but only four living ones. One of these dis- 
appeared before we could get a shot, and the 
other three, an old cinnamon with two well- 
grown cubs, we found at the top of one of the 
lower peaks of the Grand Teton near camp. 
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