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shoulder caused the instant demise of the ram, but, 

 relaxing, he pitched forward and slid out of sight, 

 thousands of feet down the gorge. The other rams 

 alarmed by the shot stood a moment like wonder- 

 fully posed statues on the sky line and their photo- 

 graph was taken as they stood thus, while a second 

 photograph was immediately made as they dashed 

 down the mountain in full flight. 1 Dixon went 

 down the gorge to skin out the ram's head, but on 

 reaching the animal found one of the horns had 

 been broken off eight inches in the fall, making the 

 head useless as a trophy; but taking some of the 

 meat he climbed back to the writer, and we sat down 

 on the ridge to watch Hoyt and the Indian, who 

 were slowly climbing down to the bottom of the 

 gorge. 



It is not often that one has the opportunity while 

 hunting of watching another conduct a stalk and the 

 stalk of which we were spectators was unusually in- 

 teresting. As Hoyt and the Indian reached the 

 bottom of the canyon we focused our ten-power 

 binoculars upon them and continued to look with 

 growing interest and admiration as they began to 

 climb the almost perpendicular walls on the other 



1 The writer regrets he is unable to show this picture taken 

 under most favorable conditions and with perfect light; but this 

 photograph with a number of others was utterly ruined later when 

 the boat crossing the Shims River sank, with all the writer's ex- 

 posed films. In view of the mishap the writer is particularly 

 fortunate to preserve any portion of the photographic record. 



