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movements of that fiery, mysterious monster 

 than to the seeking of a place of permanent 

 safety. In the grassy open, into which the 

 smoke was beginning to drift and hang, the 

 deer scattered and lingered. At each roar of the 

 fire they turned hither and thither excitedly to 

 look and listen. A flock of mountain sheep, in 

 a long, narrow, closely pressed rank and led by 

 an alert, aggressive bighorn, presented a fine 

 appearance as it raced into the open. The ad- 

 mirable directness of these wild animals put 

 them out of the category occupied by tame, 

 "silly sheep." Without slackening pace they 

 swept across the grassy valley in a straight line 

 and vanished in the wooded slope beyond. Now 

 and then a coyote appeared from somewhere 

 and stopped for a time in the open among the 

 deer; all these wise little wolves were a trifle 

 nervous, but each had himself well in hand. 

 Glimpses were had of two stealthy mountain 

 lions, now leaping, now creeping, now swiftly 

 fleeing. 



Bears were the most matter-of-fact fellows 

 in the exodus. Each loitered in the grass and 



