American Big Game in its Haunts 



leave the mountain they are on and go to another ; 

 they will not stay there, and will not return until 

 something drives them back." 



SOME WAYS OF THE SHEEP. 



Mr. Hofer said: 



"In old times it was sometimes possible to get a 

 'stand' on sheep, and, in my opinion, sheep often, 

 even to-day, are the least suspicious of all the 

 mountain animals. A mountain sheep always 

 seems to fear the thing that he sees under him. If 

 a man goes above him he does not seem to know 

 what to do. I could never understand why, when 

 one is above him, he stands and looks. I have 

 sometimes been riding around in the mountains, 

 and have come on sheep right below me. I have 

 often thrown stones at them, and sometimes it was 

 quite a while before I could get them to start. 

 Finally, however, they would run off. They acted 

 as if they were dazed. 



"On the other hand, when I carried the mail 

 down in San Juan county, Colorado, in the winter of 

 1875-^76, going across from Animas Forks by way 

 of the Grizzly Pass to Tellurium Fork, I was 

 the only person in that section of the country all 

 through the winter, and yet, although the sheep 

 saw only me, and saw me every day, they always 



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