DAN BEARD AND THE BOYS. 



Anything which brings nature nearer to us, and 

 gives recreation, innocent and refined, is an influence 

 for good. — Sir Edwin Arnold. 



A LITTLE MOUNTAIN GOAT. 

 Over in Canada the people make many of 

 the same mistakes that they do on our side 

 of the line, and one of them is that they do 

 not fully appreciate the artistic value of na- 

 tive products. Consequently we find Swiss 

 guides in Swiss dress on the grand 

 American mountains, when long-haired men 

 with buckskin clothes would be much more 



if any of you ever saw a live rocky moun- 

 tain goat, and this photograph is unique, be- 

 ing, as far as I know, the only one ever 

 published of a live Rocky Mountain goat kid. 

 The Swiss guides caught Nanny on Mount 

 Field, on the 29th day of May, in 1900. 

 The little creature had then been born but 

 a few days, otherwise they could never have 

 caught it alive, as by the time the goat is a 



COMRADES 



appropriate, picturesque and decidedly Amer- 

 ican. But the Swiss guides are good fel-» 

 lows and know all about mountain climbing. 

 It was two of them, Halsar and Bohm, who 

 caught the little Rocky Mountain goat kid 

 which I photographed while it stood at the 

 foot of its mountain home at Field, British 

 Columbia. The youngster, Harold Castle, 

 who is holding ''Nanny" in the photograph, 

 is an American from Honolulu. I want you 

 boys to look well at this picture, for I doubt 



fortnight old it can follow its dam anywhere, 

 and when I photographed it it was perfectly 

 capable of taking care of itself. 



But, boys, within a few years there will 

 be no beautiful pronghorn antelopes, no 

 grand buffalo, no stately elk, no mountain 

 sheep and no big game of any sort, unless 

 we unite and form a strong society for their 

 preservation. I have a proposition to make, 

 and that is that we now form a society to be 

 called, 



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