THE WHITE GOAT AND HIS 

 WAYS 



SHOULD you wish with your own eyes to look 

 upon this odd and much-debated creature, it is 

 (to name some of his territories) in the Saw 

 Tooth Range in Idaho, and among the peaks 

 northward from Lake Chelan, the Okanogan and 

 Methow rivers, all three in Washington, and 

 also upon many mountains near the coast in 

 British Columbia that, if you climb high and 

 hard enough, you are almost sure to find him; 

 and you would be perfectly certain to find him 

 in the Zoological Gardens at Philadelphia to-day 

 April twenty, 1903. But it may be that by the 

 time you shall read this the summer heat of 

 Philadelphia will have ended his existence there ; 

 and this is the only place in our country (or in 

 any country at present writing) where he is in 

 captivity. Of his natural habitat and the inter- 

 esting questions that it raises, I shall presently 

 speak ; let me at once dismiss the question 



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