CHAPTER XII. 



A BUSY DAY. 



SCORINv' A MISS HUFFMAN PHOTOGRAPHS A SCENE SHAKSPEARE 

 IN ^HE MOUNTAINS A GRIZZLY "RUSTLING FOR CHUCK" A 

 RACE FOR LIFE BRUIN FALLS A SEVERE ATTACK OF PUNNING 

 BUTTER SIDE DOWN A HERD OF ELK MORE SPORT. 



HUFFMAN had been out during the afternoon and made a 

 few exposures on some fine scenery. We experienced an- 

 other cold night. While eating our breakfast next morning, 

 ice formed on water we had brought from the spring but a 

 few minutes before. We moved at nine o'clock A.M., keep- 

 ing northward along the west slope of the mountain. At 

 three P.M. we made camp near some large springs and in the 

 edge of a group of pines. On the little park in front of our 

 camp the grass was thick and furnished capital grazing for 

 the animals. 



Just as we halted for camp, five mule deer, three bucks 

 and two does, jumped from the grass about two hundred 

 yards from us, and started up a hill toward the timber. We 

 built a smudge after them, tore the ground up all around them, 

 and finally knocked one down. 



After dinner we went to some springs near us to watch 

 for elk, as signs were very plentiful there, showing that they 

 had been coming in there to water and feed every night. We 

 hoped they might show up this evening before dark, but they 

 did not. The next morning, while packing up two more 

 deer, a buck and doe came into the meadow within a few 

 rods of our camp. Jack caught up his carbine and knocked 

 pne of them down. In the afternoon, as we were passing 



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