This was sheer frolic for these children of the 

 crags. 



Down a vertical guUey — a giant chimney 

 with one side out — they went hippety-hop 

 from side to side, and at the bottom, without 

 a stop, dropped fifteen feet to a wide bench 

 below. The ram simply dived off, with front 

 feet thrust forward and with hind feet drawn up 

 and forward, and apparently struck with all 

 four feet at once. A number of others followed 

 in such rapid succession that they appeared to 

 be falling out of the air. Each, however, made 

 it a point to land to the right or the left of the 

 one it was following. Two ewes turned broad- 

 side to the wall as they went over and dropped 

 vertically, — stiff-legged, back horizontal, and 

 with head held well up. The lambs leaped over- 

 board simultaneously only a second behind the 

 rear ewe, each lamb coming to a stop with the 

 elastic bounce of youth. 



Beneath this bench where all had paused, the 

 wall was perilously steep for perhaps one hun- 

 dred feet. A moment after the lambs landed, 

 the ram followed the bench round the wall for 



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