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There was still considerable snow on the high 

 places. It was soft snow and we slipped easily 

 and often. On the extreme top of the butte a 

 sparcc growth of young willow brush formed 

 a screen, behind which I lay down in the 

 snow for a while, until I found an opening 

 in the rock at the left side where I could sit 

 as if in an arm chair and watch from my 

 point of vantage without getting wet with the 

 melting snow. 



It was about eleven o'clock by the time the 

 Chief and I were comfortably fixed for a long 

 vigil. The rams fed a while and then came 

 dov/n from the peak of the mountain and 

 walked out upon a ledge, whence they could 

 see what was going on in every direction. 

 They cleared away the snow with their feet and 

 th.e whole bunch lay down — four of them to 

 sleep apparently, while the ram at each end 

 kept an alert watch. With the noon-time 

 came the desire for lunch, which we ate with 

 zest. For a while afterwards I could not help 

 going to sleep and thus kept company with 

 the sleeping rams on the opposite side of the 

 divide. When I awoke the sheep were stand- 

 ing up, right in the sun, and a more glorious 

 sight it would be hard to see anywhere, their 

 graceful heads and horns and their milk- 



