RUSTLINGS IN THE ROCKIES. 



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told us to be ready for business, for he meant to run game 

 over us if we didn't keep out of the way. I had not gone 

 more than three or four hundred yards when, sure enough, I 

 heard a great commotion in the midst of a quaking-asp 

 thicket, and knew at once by the nature of the sound that it 



"THIS IS HOW WE GOT 'EM. 



was caused by a band of elk, and that Forest had jumped 

 them. They came directly toward me, but the fog was so 

 dense and the brush so thick that I could not see them until 

 they were within a few feet of me. As they approached me 

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