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with, me, however, and by its aid was able to pick 

 out the few words necessary in what little talking I 

 had to do, and to translate enough of Pean' s answers 

 to my questions to get along fairly well. The great 

 trouble with him seemed to be that he was wound 

 up to talk, and whenever I made a remark or asked 

 a question in his adopted language he turned loose, 

 and talked until I shut him off with "Halokum- 

 tucks" (I don't understand). No matter how often 

 I repeated this he seemed soon to forget it, and 

 would open on me again whenever he got a cue. He 

 was a fluent talker, arid if I had only been well up 

 in the jargon, 1 could have got lots of pointers from 

 him. 



The deer of this region is the true black-tail (Csr- 

 vus Columbian us), not the mule-deer (Cervus ma- 

 crotis), that is so often miscalled the black-tail. 

 The black-tail is smaller than the mule-deer, and its 

 ears, though not so large as those of the latter, are 

 larger than those of the Virginia deer (Cervus vir- 

 qinianus). Its tail is white underneath, dark out- 

 side, shading to black at the lower end, and while 

 longer than that of the mule-deer, is not so long as 

 that of the Virginia deer. 



