IN THE ALASKA- YUKON GAMELANDS 



had been watching a couple of bunches of sheep 

 for some time, and one lot of seven being 

 right in line with where we were going, we ex- 

 posed ourselves to their view, and watched re- 

 sults. Six of them 'beat it' at once, but the other 

 one never moved, and we found later that he was 

 sound asleep in the sun, and he never woke up 

 till we were just opposite him and about a couple 

 of hundred yards away. Then as he got up and 

 saw no sheep close by, he evidently made up his 

 mind we were sheep, and here he came, right 

 up to within five feet of us, and then seemed 

 much surprised to find we were not his kind of 

 people at all. But still he was not frightened 

 enough to beat it, but kept walking around us 

 within a few yards as tho trying to make us out 

 to be sheep anyway. He was only a yearling — 

 but show me the yearling elk, deer or any other 

 wild animal that would exhibit such boneheaded- 

 ness! It was just such doings as this that made 

 me think that they were not much on the scent, 

 and I have proven it to myself many times, and 

 even that same day I took Judge Ford right up 

 to within thirty yards of seventeen ewes and 

 lambs with the wind blowing straight from us to 

 them." 



I do not profess to be an expert sheep hunter. 

 If I could consider myself such I would feel that 

 I had reached the very highest pinnacle of hunt- 

 ing proficiency. 



There is so much real art, woods lore, tracking 



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