RECREATION, 



XXV 



other circumstances would not ha.ve 

 shot at one of them. I, however, told 

 Mr. Wright, the guide, that I thought 

 it would be best to go up and see 

 what the trouble was with this ani- 

 mal. He went, and Coleman with 

 him. They easily got within 50 yards 

 of the goat and found that the entire 

 lower portion of its face had been 

 torn off; that the nostrils were ex- 

 posed and bleeding ; and they natural- 

 ly concluded that as soon as the warm 

 weather and the flies came the goat 

 would die from the effects of its mis- 



We also had great fun watching 

 birds and red squirrels, through the 

 glass. A wren 100 yards away could 

 be seen so plainly that we could count 

 the feathers in its wings. 



In targeting our rifles, at 200 yards, 

 we could see every bullet hole plainly, 

 and thus dispense with the services of 

 a marker. 



An old trapper who camped near us 

 had a bear trap on the side of the 

 mountain, nearly a mile from camp, 

 and every morning we took a look at 

 this to see whether it had been sprung. 



Field of Ordi- 

 nary Glass. 



BAUSCH & LOMB-ZEISS STEREO BINOCU- 

 LAR. POWER 4 TO 12 DIAMETERS. 



Field of STEREO Glass. 



fortune. They accordingly crawled up, 

 made several photographs of the goat, 

 in various positions, and then killed 

 it, in order to put it out of its misery. 

 The illustration herewith shows the 

 goat in profile, but anyone familiar 

 with the anatomy of this animal will 

 see that the Roman part of its nose- 

 so to speak, is all gone. Thus it hap- 

 pened that we were able to save this 

 poor beast from a slow and lingering 

 death by having a powerful field glass 

 with us. The goat had evidently been 

 caught in a snow slide. 



Thus we saved him many a weary 

 climb up the hill. Finally one morn- 

 ing we saw something in the trap, 

 sure enough. We could not quite de- 

 termine what it was by simply hold- 

 ing the glass to our eyes ; but when 

 we put it on the tripod and made it 

 rigid, we saw in a moment that the 

 bear was only a measly porcupine. 



A prismatic field glass is an abso- 

 lute necessity in the outfit of every 

 hunter or nature student, and no man 

 should ever go into camip without one 

 of these powerful instruments 



WHEN ANSWERING ADS ALWAYS 

 MENTION RECREATION. 



