Kragv the Kootenay Ram 



leak watershed, she caught a glimpse of moving 

 forms on a ridge ahead. After a long watch she 

 made out that they were in the uniform of 

 Sheep — gray, with white-striped stockings and 

 white patches on face and stern. They were 

 going up wind. Keeping out of view, she made 

 so as to cross their back trail, which she soon 

 found, and thus learned that her guess was 

 right : there were the tracks of two large Big- 

 horn ; but the trail also said that they were Rams. 

 According to Mountain Sheep etiquette, the 

 Rams form one community and the Ewes and 

 Lambs another. They must not mix or seek 

 each other's society, excepting during the early 

 winter, the festal months, the time of love and 

 mating. 



Nubbins's mother, or the Spikerdoe, as we 

 may call her, left the trail and went over the 

 watershed, glad to know that this was a Sheep 

 region. She rested for the night in a hollow, 

 and next morning she journeyed on, feeding as 

 she went. Presently the mother caught a scent 

 that made her pause. She followed it a little. 

 Others joined on or crisscrossed, and she knew 

 now that she had found the trail of a band of 



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