Hunting American Big Gatne 



like a pig in some favorite spot. Acres 

 upon acres even of hard, stony ground they 

 w^ill turn up, and in other places it would 

 be difficult to find a stone or rock they 

 had not displaced. They vv^ill undermine 

 and dig out great stumps. Ant-hills you 

 will find levelled ; and the thrifty squirrels, 

 who have labored all the previous fall to 

 make a cache of pine-nuts, are robbed on 

 sight. 



One spring, the work on the ranch 

 being done. Woody and I took our pack- 

 horses and proceeded to the mountains after 

 bears. I had no sooner picked out a good 

 camping-ground than it began to snow, 

 and for four days we could not stir from 

 camp. However, it finally cleared off, 

 the sun came out bright and warm, and 

 the little stream that we were on began 

 boiling, tearing, and rushing along, full to 

 the banks, causing us to move our camp 

 back to higher ground. After breakfast, 

 as we proposed to take a long day's trip, 

 we took our horses with us. Riding up to 

 the head of the stream we were on, looking 

 for bears, no signs were to be seen, though 

 plenty of sheep were in sight all the time. 

 Riding on away above the canon some 

 six or eight miles, we could see some 



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