American Big-Game Hunting 



more in the open, and travel incessantly in 

 search of food. 



It is highly interesting to watch them,, 

 when one has the chance, turning over 

 stones, tearing open fallen trees, or rooting 

 like a pig in some favorite spot. Acres upon 

 acres even of hard, stony ground they will 

 turn up, and in other places it would be dif- 

 ficult to find a stone or rock they had not 

 displaced. They will undermine and dig out 

 great stumps. Ant-hills you will find lev- 

 eled, and the thrifty squirrels, who have la- 

 bored all the previous fall to make a cache of 

 pine nuts, are robbed on sight. 



One spring, the work on the ranch being 

 done, Woody and I took our pack-horses and 

 proceeded to the mountains after bears. I 

 had no sooner picked out a good camping- 

 ground than it began to snow, and for four 

 days we could not stir from camp. How- 

 ever, it finally cleared off, the sun came out 

 bright and warm, and the little stream that 

 we were on began boiling, tearing, and rush- 

 ing along, full to the banks, causing us to 

 move our camp back to higher ground. 



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