Krag:, the Kootenay Ram 



for not even a Bighorn can drop two hundred 

 feet on rock and live. 



Krag now turned on his other foe with double 

 fury. One more shock and the stranger was 

 thrown, defeated. He leaped to his feet and 

 bounded off. For a time Krag urged him to 

 further flight by the same means that Krinkle- 

 hom once used to persecute him, then returned 

 in triumph to live unmolested with his family. 



XII 



Scotty had gone from his Tobacco Creek 

 location in 1887. The game was pretty well 

 hunted out. Sheep had become very scarce, 

 news of new gold strikes in Colorado had at- 

 tracted him southward, and the old shanty was 

 irted. Five years went by with Krag as the 

 leading Ram. It was five years under a good 

 genius, with an evil genius removed — five years 

 of prosperity, then, for the Bighorn. 



Krag carried further the old ideas that were 

 known to his mother. He taught his band to 

 abjure the lowlands entirely. The forest cov- 

 erts were full of evil, and the only land of safety 



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