INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



who was particularly good, according to his 

 mother's account of him. Our first day's ex- 

 perience with these interesting children caused 

 us to reverse the parental opinion. When we 

 returned from our hunt the evening of the 

 following day, the guide missed his lasso ; the 

 good little boy had tried to lasso a cat which 

 was selecting some delicacies from a tin can, 

 the cat took a sudden leap to escape the lasso, 

 and in doing so shoved its head into the can 

 and cinched the lasso round its body; cat, can 

 and lasso disappeared in the sage brush and 

 were never found. 



The country around Bear River Canon is 

 very rough and picturesque. The canon is 

 steep and cuts a great gorge in the mountain, 

 and is very difficult to cross. In one place 

 we were headed off by the precipice, which 

 must have been fully a thousand feet in depth ; 

 I rolled a stone off the edge, and its descent 

 seemed to take a considerable time. A shower 

 of broken fragments and dust, followed a 

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