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American Big Game in its Haunts 



covered with large slide rock. I raced in the same 

 direction, knowing well that they would work up 

 hill. But hurrying over such ground is rather 

 dangerous work. 



Soon the two sheep came into view, offering a 

 pretty quartering shot at a little under a hundred 

 yards. The old ram fell to my first bullet, and I 

 allowed the smaller one to go and grow up, and I 

 hope offer good sport to some persevering sports- 

 man five years hence. 



While Hunter climbed down and skinned out 

 the heads I turned in pursuit of the one which I 

 had first fired at, for we both thought he had been 

 hit, having seen hair fly. I soon located him in the 

 distance, but he showed no signs of a bad wound, 

 and as his head was small I was truly glad that my 

 shot had only grazed him. Both the rams which 

 I killed carried excellent heads with unbroken 

 points, and we were safely back in camp with the 

 trophies shortly after two o'clock that afternoon 

 an easy and a pleasant day. 



The larger ram measured i^^A inches around 

 the base of the horns, and 37% inches along the 

 outer curves. These were the longest horns of the 

 Ovis dalli that I killed. The other ram measured 

 13 inches around the horns and 34^ inches along 

 the outer curve. 



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