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robe. About ten o'clock the sound of the bells- on 

 the pack train came to us, and shortly Bones and 

 Fisher with the animals came to our modest willow 

 fire. Bones relieved our anxiety by telling us the 

 lost top pack contained Jack Hayden's sleeping robe. 

 At 11.30 P.M. Bettle, Wolcott, and Dixon stum- 

 bled out of the darkness to our fire, very hungry and 

 looking somewhat " gone." Leaving our Wolver- 

 ine camp they had gone up the canyon, taking the 

 left branch to the glacier, fording the creek a num- 

 ber of times, and becoming very wet and chilled in 

 the process. They dried out at noon and Wolcott 

 located a caribou bull with nice head, which he killed 

 at two hundred and fifty yards. When the head 

 had been skinned out, the three went up Martindale 

 Glacier and stalked a band of fourteen rams, one of 

 which Bettle shot and supposed he had killed as the 

 same lay quiet. However, the ram was only 

 creased across the neck by the bullet and soon re- 

 vived. Wolcott called to Bettle that the ram was 

 getting on his feet, and Bettle acted promptly, even 

 if strangely, for he seemed to forget he had a rifle 

 to use on game and only to remember that at a not 

 distant date he had played on the Harvard Varsity 

 in a Yale game. Like a flash he made a flying 

 tackle at the ram, took the animal off his feet, and 

 with arms around him in a never-say-die grip both 

 hunter and hunted rolled into a creek, where the ram 

 pawed and fought while the hunter held on, and 



