The White Goat and his Country 



Not so a goat mama of which T 



also told me. Some prospectors came on a 

 bunch of goats when the kids were young 

 -enough to be caught. One of the men cap- 

 tured a kid, and was walking off with it, when 

 the mother took notice and charged furiously 

 down on him. He flew by in ignominious 

 sight of the whole camp with the goat after 

 him, till he was obliged to drop the kid, which 

 was then escorted back to its relatives by its 

 most competent parent. 



Yet no room for generalizing is here. We 

 cannot conclude that the Ursus family fails 

 to think blood as thick as other people do. 

 These two incidents merely show that the 

 race of bears is capable of producing unma- 

 ternal females, while, on the other hand, we 

 may expect occasionally to find in a nanny- 

 goat a Mother of the Gracchi. 



I wished to help carry the heavy hide of the 



second billy; but T inflicted this upon 



himself, "every step to camp," he insisted, 

 "for punishment at disappointing you." The 

 descent this day had been bad enough, 

 taking forty minutes for some four hundred 

 yards. But now we were two hours getting 



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