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soon got fresh deer-tracks, and there were so many of 

 them that I thought there was sure to be a buck 

 amongst them, though in the snow I could not distin- 

 guish between the tracks of bucks and does by the 

 relative size of the footprints. Mule deer appear to 



STRIKING CAMP IN THE SNOW, ROCKY MOUNTAINS, OCTOBER, 1897 



feed at this time of year more on the leaves of a 

 little shrub, which grows in patches on the hillsides 

 but only attains to a height of a foot or eighteen 

 inches, than upon grass. These little bushes they 

 evidently first scent, and then dig clear of snow. 

 Mule deer always seemed to me to revel in snow, but 

 when it gets really deep Graham told me they were 



