INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



effort to obtain an explanation received no 

 notice, as he was supposed to be the guilty 

 party and naturally would understand the 

 cause of the trouble well enough without it. 

 While the operator was pouring out the bur- 

 den of his troubled soul to the guide a few 

 days after, a suspicion flashed across the mind 

 of the latter that perhaps the fragrant mes- 

 sage he had sent at random might have been 

 the cause of the misunderstanding. He so 

 informed the operator, and matters were 

 finally satisfactorily explained, and the former 

 friendly relations restored. 



When California Park was at length 

 reached, we found the country very hilly, but 

 open. There were a number of antelope in 

 that locality, but it was almost impossible to 

 get a good shot at one. The atmosphere is 

 so deceptive that it is very difficult to gauge 

 the distance. I made a good many quite 

 accurate line shots, but they were invariably 

 either too high or too low. It was some 

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