feet in length, three feet in height, and weighing about one hun- 

 dred pounds, but he much resembles that animal in proverbial in- 

 nocence. "What fun is there," one hunter asks, "in shooting down 

 a creature who, when once he knows you are after him, dodges be- 

 hind a wall of rock and, picking his way calmly across its smooth 

 and perfectly vertical surface, will look behind every now and 

 again, as if teasing you to follow him? 1 ' In consequence of this 

 lack of suspicion, he falls an easy prey to the few sportsmen who 

 have sufficient patience and boldness once to approach within gun- 

 shot. 



The mountain goat lives on the lichens found above the timber 

 line and, unlike most inhabitants of that high zone, is seldom forced 

 into the valleys by winter, preferring rather to pick up a scanty 

 fare by pawing the snow from the lichens. 



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