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announced: " Him shoot him good, kill him quick, 

 in heart shoot." I laughed at Albert, and told him 

 that ram was five miles away by this time and that 

 I saw him running the twenty feet to the ridge just 

 as fast as before I shot; but Albert only smiled and 

 said: " All same dead." 



Taking the head and part of the meat, we started 

 in the direction of our horses, crossing the ridge 

 where the rams had vanished; there not five feet 

 from the top of the ridge lay my third ram, shot 

 behind the shoulder with the bullet ranging through 

 the body and out the other side. The Indian 

 looked at the ram and, turning to me with an ex- 

 pression of assurance, remarked: " Look, him 

 dead in heart, sometime big sheep run fast, shoot 

 him in heart; all same run little bit more," and it 

 was even so. The head was not quite perfect, as 

 one horn was broomed at the point, making it an 

 inch shorter than the perfect horn; but I was glad 

 to have it, simply as showing what happens to the 

 horns, since I already had two perfect specimens. 

 The tape showed a base circumference of fifteen 

 and one-half inches, the perfect horn length of 

 thirty-eight inches, and a spread of twenty-five 

 inches, while the annular rings marked eight years. 



While skinning this ram, Dixon and Hoyt came 

 up to us with Hoyt's ram, which measured fifteen 

 inches around the base of the horn, with thirty-six 

 inches length, and twenty-seven inches spread, age 



