
READY MADE TOMB STONES. 
ture of him. However, on close examina- 
tion he proved to be simply 2 sprouts that 
had grown up from the root of a fallen 
tree and died and shed their leaves. It 
happened that the root of the tree had been 
burned and a remaining bit of charcoal 
formed what appeared to be the animal’s 
right eye. A piece of another sprout that 
had been broken off furnished a good imi- 
tation of an ear, and, viewed through the 
brush, the outfit looked very like a real 
ibex. 
Many a so-called hunter would have 
plunked a bullet at such an apparition, and 

THE ONLY AMERICAN IBEX. 
then have gone to camp and told the boys 
how he had shot at an ibex, and hit it be- 
tween the eyes, but that when he went up 
to it, it proved to be only a root of an old 
tree. There are other hunters who would 
have plunked a bullet 4 feet to one side of 
it, or over it, or under it, and would still 
have told the other fellows how they hit it 
between the eyes. I know certain tender- 
feet who would have fled from so formid- 
able a looking beast, at sight, and rushed 
into camp wildly excited and told the boys 
between gasps, how they had seen an ibex, 
and that it dashed into the brush and es- 
caped before they could get a shot at it. 

IMAGINARY DEER HORNS. 
This picture shows about as good a speci- 
men of the real ibex as has probably ever 
been found on this continent; yet a well 
known British Columbia sportsman told me 
2 months ago that he firmly believed there 
were plenty of ibexes in a certain remote 
