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opposite side he sent his dog "Boston" down to bay the elk, 

 which he quickly did in a mixture of aspen, cottonwood, and 

 spruce. I slid down into the gulch and, setting up the camera, 

 got several views of him at close range. (Nos. 16, 17, 18.) 

 A day or so later we climbed up on the mountain farther back, 

 and bearing to the right along its crest a mile or more, 

 came in sight of several bulls feeding along the rim of the 

 mountain, where the winds had cleared the snow from the 

 grass underneath. They were out in open ground, where 

 approach was nearly impossible. Our only chance lay in 

 climbing a ridge on the north and keeping on its farther side 

 until we were beyond them. Even then the chances looked 

 poor. However, up we climbed and got in the lee of the 

 ridge, out of the bitter wind. Just at the far end we scared 

 up two bulls lying in some aspens. They ran down into a 

 little valley just below, where four more joined them. We 

 tried to get to them, but could find no cover. The elk soon 

 left the valley and crossed a ridge, we following. Pretty soon 

 " Boston " winded the elk, and we sent him forward. They 

 were in some thick spruces, but " Boston " soon had them 

 moving, and after a short chase bayed one under another clump 

 of spruce, where I obtained a negative. (No. 19.) Before I 

 could get another, he broke away and ran out on the rim of 

 the mountain, where he joined another bull. " Boston " had the 

 two bayed by the time we came up. I could not get nearer 

 than two hundred yards, so crept up behind a boulder and a 

 little clump of aspens and made another exposure in an environ- 



