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wife went with them to take some photographs, and 

 whilst assisting in the search for the tine that had been 

 broken off, came on the body of a mouse, which had 

 evidently been killed and squashed flat by the sudden 

 fall of the great stag ! 



DEAD WAPITI SHOT BY W. M., SEPTEMBER, 1897 



Judging from the accounts I have read of hunting 

 in the Rocky Mountains some twenty years ago, wapiti 

 were then very easily shot. At that time they were of 

 course very plentiful, and wherever they had not been 

 much persecuted, probably not very wary. Now things 

 are very different, at any rate, in the district where I 

 have hunted them amongst the mountains to the east 



