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SPORT AND TRAVEL 



perhaps days together without ever seeing a wapiti 

 or a deer, or even the fresh track of one, and perhaps 

 showing, however involuntarily, by his face, something 

 of the disappointment it is impossible to avoid feel- 

 ing in his heart, he will be sure to hear such words 



SCENE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AFTER THE FIRST SNOWFALL, 

 OCTOBER, 1897 



of comfort as, " Wait till we get tracking snow, and 

 you '11 get all the elk you want, I guess," or, " The first 

 good snow-storm will drive them out of the higher 

 mountains, and then we shall have a chance to find 

 them ; " and so the hope of snow buoys one up and 

 prevents bitter disappointment turning to dull despair. 



