4 STALKS ABROAD 



hunter may be proud ; however, I shall have some- 

 thing to say about him at the end of the present 

 chapter. 



Early in the season mountain sheep may be 

 seen quite close to the road at this point, but they 

 were all away up on Mount Washburn during our 

 stay, and though we rode up the mountain we never 

 saw them. 



The herd of bison at the Mammoth Hot Springs, 

 under the care of Buffalo Jones, is interesting from 

 many points of view. 



Buffalo Jones and his brother imported the original 

 eighteen animals from Texas ; they are doing well 

 and have now increased in numbers to fifty-seven. 

 There are two fine old bulls in the herd. We had 

 rather an amusing adventure with one of them. I 

 was anxious to get a photograph of some wapiti which 

 were in the bison enclosure, and Jones said the best 

 chance would be when the bison were being fed, about 

 three o'clock, and the wapiti down near a little pool out 

 of sight of the herd. As soon, therefore, as the bison, 

 among them the biggest bull, began to dawdle up 

 at feeding time, Burton and I slipped through the 

 wires, out of their sight, and cautiously approached 

 the pool. As we drew near, sure enough we saw a 

 wapiti cow standing near the pool a couple of hundred 

 yards off'. Simultaneously we also spotted a dark 

 mass lying underneath a dead tree about the same 

 distance to our left. A second glance was unnecessary. 

 It was the other old bull the redoubtable " Teddy " 



