ELK HUNT IN WYOMING 



do you know?" he asked. For answer I 

 pointed to a lifeless form just beyond lying 

 among some spruce trees. As the guide 

 stepped alongside of me, where he could get 

 a view, he expressed his surprise at the luck 

 I had had in getting two such fine heads in 

 so short an interval. It was barely half an 

 hour since I had secured my first trophy, and 

 now I had a second one which we both re- 

 garded as better than the first. The ball had 

 struck back of the shoulder a little above the 

 middle of the body. The spread of this head 

 was a trifle larger than the first one I had 

 shot; the antlers were more solid, especially 

 at the base. My hard hunting had been re- 

 warded. I had obtained inside of half an 

 hour two heads as handsome and large as 

 any that it had ever been my good fortune 

 to secure. I felt like a school boy about to 

 take a vacation, for I had hunted faithfully 

 for about eleven days and I promised myself 

 a rest when I had won out with the bulls. 



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