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the morning after the storm and beheld everything 

 buried two feet deep, they concluded that sheep 

 hunting under such conditions was sport reduced to 

 its lowest terms, and made haste to leave the dizzy 

 heights behind, and returned to camp. 



Cutting and Bettle with Baker went over the 

 mountains behind our camp the day we left, and 

 forced their way deep into the range, where they 

 were caught by the storm at a low willow patch. 

 They stayed on, however, and saw a great many 

 rams, which they stalked among the peaks. This 

 afternoon they came down to the home camp, bring- 

 ing in three rams' heads of fair size, but imperfect, 

 as all of them have broken points. 



Wolcott and Hayden went north down the St. 

 Clair this morning to look for moose, and ten miles 

 down rode up the mountains above timber line, 

 searching the valley with their glasses in an effort 

 to locate the game. This is rather difficult hunting, 

 as it is almost impossible to pick out these animals 

 in the thick timber below by looking for them from 

 above. Late in the afternoon, however, Hayden's 

 keen eye located a bull moose lying down in the tim- 

 ber nine hundred yards away, and the hunters began 

 a difficult stalk, made more uncertain by the fact 

 that when they had advanced into the timber they 

 no longer knew exactly where the moose was resting. 



Creeping carefully between the trees, they came 

 within fifty yards of the reclining bull before dis- 



