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on our part. He was standing still, less than 

 a hundred yards off, when the shot was fired ; 

 and we came across him so close merely by 

 accident. Still, we fairly deserved our luck, 

 for we had hunted with the most patient and 

 painstaking care from dawn till nightfall for 

 the better part of three days, spending most 

 of the time in climbing at a smart rate of 

 speed up sheer cliffs and over rough and 

 slippery ground. Still-hunting the big-horn 

 is always a toilsome and laborious task, and 

 the very bitter weather during which we 

 had been out had not lessened the difficulty 

 of the work, though in the cold it was much 

 less exhausting than it would have been to 

 have hunted across the same ground in sum- 

 mer. No other kind of hunting does as much 

 to bring out the good qualities, both moral 

 and physical, of the sportsmen who follow 

 it. If a man keeps at it, it is bound to make 

 him both hardy and resolute; to strengthen 

 his muscles and fill out his lungs. 



Mountain mutton is in the fall the most 



