American Big Game in its Haunts 



his solitary position and passed from view behind 

 a mass of boulders near the remaining sheep. 



The head of the ram which I had shot the day 

 before was much smaller than I had supposed at 

 the time. In order to avoid this in future I had 

 asked Hunter to advise me in selecting only really 

 good heads. My man, who now had the glasses, 

 declared that the big sheep had not joined the 

 bunch of four, and I must confess that I was also 

 deceived. 



Although the four had become suspicious from 

 seeing the three go slowly up the cliff, still 

 they had not made us out, and the wind re- 

 mained favorable. Lying close only long 

 enough for them to get over their uneasiness, we 

 cautiously stalked up to within some two hundred 

 yards. Again we used the glasses most carefully, 

 but could not see the big ram. Suddenly the sheep 

 became alarmed and started up the mountain. I 

 expected each second to see the large ram come out 

 from behind the boulders, and therefore withheld 

 from shooting. But when he did not appear I 

 turned my attention to the four which had paused 

 and were looking down upon us from a rocky ridge 

 nearly four hundred yards above. As they stood 

 in bold relief against the black crags, I saw that 



one carried horns much larger than the others, and 



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