A Tame White Goat 



the horns and skins, but I have never 

 gone after them much, as the work is 

 very severe, and the flesh usually affords 

 poor eating, being musky, as there is a 

 big musk-pod situated between the ear 

 and the horn. Only a few of the old- 

 time hunters knew anything about white 

 goats; and even, nowadays there are not 

 very many men who go into their haunts 

 as a steady thing; but the settlers who 

 live high up in the mountains do come 

 across them now and then, and they 

 occasionally have odd stories to relate 

 about them. 



One was told to me by an old fellow 

 who had a cabin on one of the tributaries 

 that ran into Flathead Lake. He had 

 been off prospecting for gold in the moun- 

 tains early one spring. The life of a 

 prospector is very hard. He goes alone, 

 and in these northern mountains he 

 cannot take with him the donkey which 

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