The Mountain Sheep and its Range 



acted wild. Sometimes a ram would see me and 

 stand and look for a long time, and then presently 

 all along the mountain side I would see sheep run- 

 ning as if they were alarmed. On the other hand, 

 if I met any of them on top of the mountain, they 

 scarcely ever ran, they just stood and looked at me. 



"Once, when on a hunting trip, I had my horses 

 all picketed in sight, just above the basin where we 

 were camped. The boy that had the care of the 

 horses had been up to change the picketed animals, 

 and when he came in he said: 'There's a sheep 

 up there close by the horses. He saw me and was 

 not afraid.' We went out of the tent and 

 presently I could see the sheep, a small one about 

 four years old. We went up toward it, and I saw 

 the sheep moving about. It went out to a little 

 flat place on the slide rock, where the slide rock 

 had pushed out a little further, making a little low 

 butte, or flat-topped table ; it was loose rock, with 

 snow. Here the sheep lay down. 



"I went around to station my man where he 

 could get a rest for his rifle, and when I had done 

 this, I went around above to make the sheep get up 

 to drive him out, so that the man could shoot him. 

 After I got well up the gulch, above him, the sheep 

 could see me plainly, and I could see his eyes. I 

 hesitated about making him get up, thinking per- 



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