Kragv the Kootenay Ram 



They could do the zigzag bounding that 

 baffles the rush of an enemy, as well as the 

 stiff-legged jumping which carries them safely 

 up glassy, slippery slopes. Krag even excelled 

 his mother in these accomplishments. They 

 were well equipped to get their own living, they 

 could eat grass, and so it was time they were 

 weaned, for Spikerdoe had to lay on her fat to 

 keep warm in the coming winter. The young- 

 sters themselves would have been in no hurry 

 to give up their comforting breakfast, but the 

 supply began to run short, and the growing 

 horns of the Lambs began to interfere with the 

 mother's comfort so much that she proceeded 

 firmly and finally with their weaning, and long 

 before the earliest snow flurry grizzled the up- 

 land, she had them quite independent of her for 

 their daily food. 



IX 



Among the numbers of the band that met their 

 fate that summer was the two-year-old Ram. 

 He had no companion of his age and sex, and 

 his sense of superiority developed a cock-sure- 

 ness which resulted in his skin being added to 



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