2 WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS 
the air with terrific speed. The goats were 
directly in the path of the flying stones, which 
for a number of seconds bounded over them 
and struck among them. A small stone struck 
an old billy on the shoulder and knocked him 
sliding for some distance. When he regained 
his feet his shoulder appeared to be broken. 
Though making every effort to control himself, 
he continued to slide and presently tumbled 
into a crevasse. He caught with his good fore 
foot on the ice and clung for a second, made one 
desperate attempt to push himself back and 
almost succeeded, and then fell into the crevasse 
and disappeared. 
A few of the flock watched him, but most of 
them stood with their heads up the slope facing 
the wildly bounding stones. None of them 
ran; there was no confusion, no panic. It 
was, perhaps, safer for the goats to stand still, 
thus presenting the smallest target for the flying 
stones, than to rush forward or to retreat in the 
midst of the bombardment, for the rocks were 
coming down both in front and behind them. 
At any rate, the goat is a wise fellow, and this 
flock probably had experienced rock fire be- 
fore. When it was all over the bearded old 
leader started forward with the rest again 
following. 
Until recently most goats lived in localities 
