THE ROOKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP. 



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game for the mere sake of sport, and then allow it to be 

 wasted. Never kill more than you can take care of. 



The Sheep are not nearly so plentiful there now as they 

 were five years ago, and probably five years hence it will 

 be difficult to find half a dozen in a week' s hunting. ' ' Pass- 

 ing away" 'is written over the gate-way to this hunter's 

 paradise, as it is over that leading to all hunting-grounds 

 on this continent; and let no man hasten the time of the 

 extinction of the Rocky Mountain Sheep more than is com- 

 mensurate with his needs in the way of reasonable sport 

 and of trophies for preservation. 



