190 SADDLE AND CAMP 



Later the guide and his party watched the 

 men skinning a mountain sheep's head. Field 

 glasses were used by the guide's party, though 

 they were near enough to see very well with 

 the naked eye. The Devil's Causeway is a reg- 

 ular runway for sheep. One of the men hunt- 

 ing for them discovered the sheep, on the op- 

 posite side, wigwagged the information to his 

 friends to be ready for them, closed in above 

 the animals, and started them across the cause- 

 way, where they were shot. How many were 

 killed I cannot say. 



Another man, not connected with this party 

 of observers, walked into the camp later and 

 surprised one of the three retreating into a 

 tent with a freshly killed sheep ham and 

 claimed he found evidence that several elk had 

 also been killed. The guide notified a game 

 warden what had been seen. The day follow- 

 ing the warning the man who had taken the 

 party in went for them, brought them out to the 

 station at Yampa, and they departed. Their 

 baggage included trunks of ample dimensions 

 to accommodate sheep heads. When they were 

 well away and safely out of reach, the warden 

 went to the mountains. There was nothing, of 

 course, to be found. 



But the authorities now and again catch the 



