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at me, and stretching out her head gave vent to a cry 

 something like that of a young calf. It was evidently 

 a call to her own fawn, for I heard an immediate 

 answer from the forest, into which the foremost mem- 

 bers of the herd had already disappeared. I fancy it 

 must be rather exceptional to hear a mule deer make 

 any kind of sound, as Graham told me that the bucks 

 neither roar nor whistle nor call in any way during 

 the rutting season, and he had always thought that the 

 does were equally silent. After I had got clear of the 

 mule deer I went on in search of wapiti; but though 

 I found some pretty fresh tracks and followed them 

 a good distance I did not see any of the animals 

 themselves. 



On reaching camp just as it was getting dark, I 

 found that my wife and all the other members of the 

 party had had a very interesting experience. They 

 had just emerged into an open space opposite the 

 mouth of the East Fork Creek, where it had been 

 arranged that we were to camp, when a band of wapiti 

 appeared on the bare mountain-side to their right and 

 not more than four hundred yards away from them. 

 They were walking along in two lines through the 

 deep snow, and numbered seventeen altogether, fif- 

 teen cows and calves, one big bull and one smaller one. 

 Just then my horse, which was standing tied to a tree 

 on the other side of the stream, caught sight of his 

 fellows and commenced to neigh, and every time he 

 neighed the big bull, thinking it was a challenge to 



