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snowy geyserite deposited by geysers extinct years 

 ago. The yellow porcupine gnaws contentedly at 

 his favorite food. Cotton tails, snow shoes and 

 jack rabbits fear none but their natural wild ene- 

 mies, and little chief hares abound in the slide 

 rock. Along the dusty roads 



BIG GOLDEN CHIPMUNKS 



and little four-striped chipmunks play and scold 

 passing teams. These creatures are so tame they 

 do not hesitate to enter your tent, and they live 

 royally on grain stored in the Transportation Com- 

 panies' stables. From the woods by the roadside 

 the 



GRACEFUL MULE-DEER 



and rarer white-tailed deer gaze with innocent curi- 

 osity at stage loads of tourists, never suspecting 

 that, but for an intangible thing called law, these 

 people would be their blood-thirsty enemies. Moose 

 wander in the forest glades at the southern boun- 

 dary of the Park, and scattered over Hayden Val- 

 ley many thousand magnificent elk roam free. 

 Recent discoveries of the remains of 



PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, 



which once inhabited the Far West, and which have 

 been so beautifully illustrated by Charles R. 

 Knight, should make us put a high value on exist- 

 ing species. The two-ton, four-horned rhinoceros, 



