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go back and move camp. The experience, however, was on 

 the whole pleasant and profitable. I have never had a bet- 

 ter chance upon any occasion to study the habits of a herd 

 of elk. 



Jake Gier may have been a good marksman, I do not 

 know as to that, but he surely was no hunter or he never 

 would have tried to approach the elk across an open valley 

 that afforded almost no cover to shield him from sight. 



That afternoon we moved camp and finally crossed the 

 Cedar river in Garfield county, camping among the willows 

 in the edge of the sand hills. Here I had rather an unusual 

 experience hunting black tail deer which will form the chief 

 subject of the next chapter. 



