creme de menthe. 



2 miles from camp, and seeing fresh 

 bear and goat sign we continued up the 

 mountain. We soon lost track of the bear 

 and decided to hunt goats. We made our 

 way along the ragged crest of a sharp, 

 rocky ridge; occasionally looking over the 

 slopes at points of vantage and examining 

 every bench and snow bank with the great- 

 est care. After passing along in this way 

 for an hour or more we crossed through a 

 saddle and, peering over a ledge of rock, 



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saw a bench, 700 or 800 feet below us, on 

 which were several large snow banks. On 

 one of these Wright discovered 4 goats 

 stretched out at full length in the sun and 

 sound asleep. By keeping behind project- 

 ing rocks as much as possible, assisting 

 each other down steep places and clinging 

 to rocks and occasional stunted trees, we 



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gradually worked downward. There were 

 a number of narrow benches, like huge 

 steps, in the mountain side. Small patches 

 of tender grass, then in blossom, con- 

 trasted pleasingly with the gray and white 

 rocks, which in huge jagged masses sepa- 

 rated and cut up the benches. We moved 

 carefully so as not to dislodge any loose 

 pieces of rock. Sometimes we were in plain 

 sight of the goats, but they slept peace- 

 fully on. We finally reached a wide bench 

 almost directly over, and not more than 60 

 yards distant from them. As I wanted a 

 trophy head I asked Wright if he could 

 pick out a " Billy." He singled one out, 

 and in a few seconds it lay on its back, in 

 a crevice in the rocks, a bullet hole through 

 the shoulder. The others were bounding 

 about from rock to rock, thoroughly con- 

 fused but making no attempt to get away. 

 Selecting the largest goat from those re- 

 maining, I shot that also. The 2 others 

 dodged about on a ledge of rock, some- 

 times out of sight behind large bowlders, 

 then reappearing again. Wright, who had 

 promised a goat head to a friend of his, 

 shot one of these and the other was allowed 

 to make its escape. We completed our 

 descent to the goats. They proved fine 

 specimens, and after admiring them we 

 dragged 2 into a convenient crevice in the 

 rocks. The other was, left some distance 

 from these in the shade of a tree. The next 

 morning we brought horses from camp to 

 within half a mile of the goats and pro- 

 ceeded the remaining distance on foot. On 

 reaching the tree where we had left one of 



