June, 1922 
FOREST AND STREAM 
271 
T he next day was devoted to the 
strictly practical operation of bring- 
ing in my elk. In the meantime, Pop 
and Fred and Homer got theirs. I never 
quite understood the details of it. There 
were sly hints to the effect that Pop had 
fired three shots, but nobody confirmed 
the rumor definitely. 
After that it was work. Packing 
horses and breaking camp is not sport. 
The strange thing about elk-hunting is 
that the fun ceases as soon as you ac- 
tually do get one. 
Back at Pop’s cabin at the mouth of 
Martin Creek, our horses were packed 
and we were ready to start down the 
famous Blue Trail. For the first time 
I thought of something. 
“How about that shot day before yes- 
terday, Fred? Did you miss ’em, that 
first time we started out to work the 
ridges ?’’ 
Fred smiled sheepishly. Then he told 
me. He had stopped and waited, just as 
I had done, with his rifle rested over a 
log, for anything that might come along. 
First a calf came into view, stopped only 
fifty or seventy-five feet from him, sniffed 
the air with raised nose, and turned its 
flank full in a slow, stealthy retreat into 
the thick timber. Fred had passed up 
the calf. A big cow was following. She 
went through the same motions, sniffing 
the air, and following the calf. Then 
another calf came and turned in the 
same way, in practically the same spot. 
He was waiting for the big bull that fol- 
lowed. The bull, too, stopped, sniffed 
and turned broadsides, only seventy-five 
feet from him. There was no hurrying 
or scurrying. He moved slowly and 
noiselessly. Just as it turned Fred had 
fired — and missed ! After that the bull 
did not hurry. It did not even move its 
head to look. It walked slowly. There 
was time to pump a dozen shells into the 
barrel and fire as many shots. There was 
time to reload if necessary. But — he 
frankly admitted it now — he had lain 
there behind the log with his rifle pointed 
and his mouth open and watched the big- 
bull walk slowly away. Buck fever ! 
BONDED FOR A BASKET 
OF TROUT 
{Continued from page 254) 
length, perfectly shaped and beautifully- 
colored. Its capture furnished the clima.x 
to a day of as fine sport as I had e\er 
enjoyed. 
""PHe ride home in the dusk was a 
delightful one. Contentment of 
mind in being released from my bond 
;may have had much to do with it, but 
there were some other things that con- 
tributed to my pleasure. A new moon, 
very close to the horizon, was alternately 
setting and rising as the mountain ranges 
shut it from view and then opened up to 
let it appear again. The creek sang to 
me on the riffles and then lulled itself to 
quiet in the long pools. From the dust 
in the road in front of my horse, whip- 
poor-wills rose with a cluck, flew a short 
distance and alighted again. The fra- 
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