Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



the biggest do not seem to go down at all. 

 They live on grubs, and more especially 

 on pine-nuts, breaking up the stores which 

 that pretty and provident little fellow, the 

 mountain squirrel, has laid by; and on his 

 labor they grow very fat. 



There is something to me beyond meas- 

 ure fascinating in hunting the grizzly, the 

 hardest of all animals to approach, except- 

 ing perhaps the sheep ; and the extreme 

 difficulty of seeing him or finding him in 

 the daylight, and the lonely haunts he has 

 now retired to, make him more difficult to 

 bring to bag than even the sheep. None 

 seems in better keeping with his surround- 

 ings than he. It must be a poor, shallow 

 nature that cannot enjoy the absolute still- 

 ness and perfect beauty of such evenings 

 as the hunter must sometimes pass alone, 

 when watching near a bait for bear. 



One such experience I have especially 

 in mind. What an evening it was, both 

 for its beauty and its good-fortune ! I 

 think of it still as a red-letter day, and 

 speak of it as 



" One from many singled out, 

 One of those heavenly days that cannot die." 



More than two thousand feet below, the 

 head-waters of the Snake gather them- 



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