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RECREATION 



Truly, we did full justice to those 

 trout after they were fried brown and 

 crisp in bacon grease. 



When the shadows of night begin to 

 lurk about the yawning canons and the 

 last golden rays of the sinking sun 

 tint the hilltops, one realizes how vast 

 the lonelv solitudes are. And after we 



disturbance by man. On the benches 

 and in the dales signs of elk were 

 found, but as we rambled through this 

 game paradise evidences of the de- 

 struction of this splendid deer were 

 obvious. Elk trails, grown over with 

 mosses and vines, reminded us of 

 the great herds that formerly lived on 



A BOB CAT 



had rolled into our blankets we gazed 

 heavenward, looking up through the 

 thick growth of stately firs, towering 

 like ship masts above us, and in the 

 dim distance the pale light of shimmer- 

 ing stars seemed to greet us and cast 

 a charming glow upon Nature's robe. 

 The music of the tonic winds and the 

 songs of night birds, with now and 

 then the weird, rumbling call of the 

 owl — the king of the night — finalh 

 found us asleep. 



We were up early the next morn- 

 ing, and before the sun peeped over 

 the eastern heights we were far up the 

 mountainside, where deer, elk, bear and 

 panther once roamed, almost free from 



those hills in the days before the tusk 

 and hide-hunters levied toll upon them. 

 Their skulls, antlers and bones werj 

 everywhere. In fact, the course of the 

 hunters might have been followed by 

 the relics of the wanton slaughter. And 

 where elk formerly lived in herds of 

 uncounted thousands to-day there are 

 less than a hundred — divided into a 

 few small herds only. The stories of 

 old hunters concerning the vast num- 

 bers that lived there could hardly be 

 credited were it not for the dim trails, 

 which, although grown up, can be 

 found even now. 



Our thoughts were soon changed, 

 for the hounds had started a bear and 



