STORY OF THE WILD SHEEP. 



President Roosevelt simply stated a fact known to all Western 

 hunters when he described the difficulties attending a successful pursuit of 

 the Rocky Mountain sheep, or "big horn," as they are generally known. 

 During Mr, Roosevelt's various outing excursions he took a keen delight in 

 hunting this wary animal, but frequently he was compelled to acknowledge 

 defeat. In the spring and summer the full-grown rams form separate bands 

 of from three to twenty, and are usually found feeding along the edges of 

 glacier-meadows, or resting among castle-like crags of the high summits ; and 

 whether quietly feeding, or scaling the wild cliffs for pleasure, their noble 

 forms, and the power and beauty of their movements, never fail to strike 

 the beholder with lively admiration. Their resting-place seems to be chosen 

 with reference to sunshine and a wide outlook, and most of all to safety 

 from the attacks of wolves. Flocks of these sheep have, on more than one 

 occasion, been known to leap down a precipice one hundred and fifty feet 

 in height. 



They frequent the elevated and craggy ridges with .which the country 

 between the great mountain range and the Pacific is intersected; but they 

 do not appear to have advanced farther to the eastward than the declivity 

 of the Rocky Mountains. 



Their favorite feeding-places are grassy knolls, skirted by craggy rocks, 



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