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two o'clock the elk lay down on the rock and began 

 chewing his end. In the morning at daylight he 

 arose, stretched himself, and walked aronnd the 

 rock. We cooked onr breakfast, and all hands pre- 

 pared for the contest. At eight o'clock we began to 

 manoeuver. We tried at first to throw the rope over 

 his head, bnt he jumped from the rock, and broke 

 away. We then let all onr dogs after him, and fired 

 our guns to, encourage them. He ran about half a 

 mile, but the dogs pursued him so closely, and closed 

 in with him so often, that he wheeled about and 

 returned to the rock. We then concluded to divert 

 his attention to the lower side of the rock by keep- 

 ing the dogs there and throwing sticks and stones, 

 while father slipped unobserved to the upper side, 

 and with a pole about twenty feet long, threw the 

 noose over his horns. All hands then went on the 

 upper side of the hill, and fastened the rope around 

 a tree, and made an ineffectual attempt to draw him 

 from the rock. We next set the dogs on him behind, 

 which drove him to the edge, when we gave a sudden 

 pull and brought him off the rock, which was there 

 about four feet high. He then plunged around, and 

 became so much entangled that he had only ten feet 

 of play. We then placed another long rope upon 

 the other horn and carried it down the hill its whole 

 length, tied it, and then loosed the first one. Two 

 of the party then drove him down the hill as far as 

 the rope would allow him. We continued in this 

 manner to fasten the ropes alternately until we had 

 worked him from tree to tree down the hill. We 



