SPORT AND TRAVEL 



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cessful termination to a long day's hunt, and was 

 one of those strokes of luck which atone for many 

 blank days. The stags were both twelve-pointers ; the 

 larger animal a fairly good one, the smaller not much 

 to boast of. 



YOUNG WAPITI BULL SHOT IN THE DEEP SNOW, OCTOBER, 1897 



It was now getting late, and although I was at no 

 great distance from camp for the wounded wapiti 

 I had been following for so many hours had led me in 

 a circle the deep snow made it difficult to move at 

 anything but a slow pace. I knew the snow was not 

 so deep in the valley of the East Fork, so I first went 

 straight down the mountain, and reached the bed of 



