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tains during the autumn months. Their meat is, too, 

 as good as it is possible for meat to be, before it 

 becomes rank, as it does towards the end of October. 

 Of the nine mule deer bucks I have shot, I weighed 

 two. One of these, a very large and heavy stag the 

 heaviest, I think, that I killed weighed 17 stone, 

 4 Ibs. clean, after having lain a night out on the hill- 

 side. The other, which was certainly smaller and 

 lighter than at least two of those which I did not 

 weigh, weighed 15 stone, 4 Ibs. clean, after having lain 

 out for two nights. 



Although bighorn sheep were thinly scattered over 

 the mountains in which we were hunting, I never 

 came across a ram, though when hunting for wapiti 

 close up on the edge of timber line, I was often able 

 to look with the glasses over ground where Graham 

 said one might expect to see sheep. One day, how- 

 ever, on returning to our high camp on the top of the 

 pass, my wife told me that our cook had during a 

 climb up the mountain in the morning seen some ani- 

 mals which he was not able to make out, but which he 

 thought were deer. We had not seen a head of game 

 for some days before this, and were just out of meat, 

 so the following morning I went out alone, determined 

 to try to find the animals that our cook had seen the 

 day before, and bring one of them back to camp. Fol- 

 lowing the directions given me, I came, after an hour's 

 climb, on the tracks of the animals our cook had seen 

 the previous day, and saw at once that they had been 



