March, 1918 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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to make satisfactory repairs to broken es¬ 
sentials of an outfit, without resort to 
those tools obtainable in town, may be of 
interest. While crawling over the rocks 
in our stalk, Billy Fan had possession of 
the binoculars and one of the eye pieces 
was crushed against the stones. The 
glasses were worthless without it. My 
vexation over the breakage was completely 
overcome by my sympathy for the chagrin 
of Billy Fan. When we got into camp 
Blair examined the binoculars and, with¬ 
out saying anything, set out to fix them. 
With his knife he cut out a round piece 
of wood of the proper diameter and length 
and with the leather punch blade reamed 
out a duplicate eye piece a trifle small to 
fit over the lens holder. Then he made 
one cut through the wooden eye piece to 
permit it to slip over the lens holder. But 
the cut prevented the new piece from hold¬ 
ing firmly in place so a piece of wet raw- 
hide was stretched around it and neatly 
sewed together and trimmed. Upon dry¬ 
ing the rawhide before the fire it contracted 
so that it rigidly held the eye piece to 
place. We then discovered that the white 
wood around the lens admitted so much 
light that the view through the glasses was 
not good so a wire was heated red hot 
and the wooden surface about the lens was 
burned a dark brown. The repair does 
not present as neat an appearance as the 
gutta percha of the original; but as the 
eye piece broken was not the one with the 
plus and minus scale it is for all uses just 
as good as the original, and I prize it as 
an example of what a man can do who has 
to depend upon his own resources. 
Intergradatton of Mountain Sheep 
M Y observation of the sheep in this 
region leads me to the conclusion 
that there are no true Stone sheep 
there. That Fannin sheep are an inter- 
gradation of the white sheep of the far 
north known as Dali’s and the iron gray 
sheep known as Stone’s seems to be con¬ 
ceded. All the sheep I saw were either a 
very light gray, almost white, or a dark 
gray, and they mingled in the same flock. 
This was especially noticeable in flocks of 
ewes, a dark one often being accompanied 
by a very light lamb. The light gray sheep 
predominated and the dark grays were 
therefore quite conspicuous. But what 
leads me to conclude that the typical Stone 
is not in the Nahlin district is that the 
dark grays have light heads. The Indians 
classify the light grays as Fannin sheep 
and the dark grays as Stone sheep. But 
the heads of these dark grays are lighter 
than those of the true Stone sheep, and 
darker than those classified as Fannin. 
Both must be simply intergradations of the 
Dali and Stone sheep in varying shades 
j of gray and should be so classified. 
Under existing law, three rams may be 
killed by a hunter if not more than two 
are of the same species, and I seriously 
question whether three may be legally 
killed near Nahlin, for the typical Stone 
sheep are not there; though they may be 
had near Shesley, about sixty miles south. 
But in any event, two rams are enough for 
any hunter and the law should be so 
amended. A limitation of two rams would 
render it unnecessary to give the hunter 
the benefit of a doubt, because a doubt is 
never resolved in favor of the game. 
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