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. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. r r 11;.: 146 Camps in the Rockies. m 1 :' W: ^ if I.. ; '(• > I, -" • 'S 1 ! .' ? -i ir. the roughest ground, where stones were constantly set roiling by x^ awkwardly heavy shooting-boots. Jumping from rock to rock, his huge rifle, carried in his right hand, used as " aljjcnstock " to steady himself, the little fellow moved along at a very rapid pace. We soon sighted the bulls, who were trudging along a small dry watercourse half a mile off. Here my youngster got excited, and, forging ahead at a ** level" run, I was left behind, with no chance of approaching the game with the necessary noiselessness. Scrambling up the next high rock, I scanned the ground, and saw that the ravine selected by the bulls turned sharply some few hundred yards ahead, enabling me, by crossing a slope of liuge boulders thrown pell-mell together, to cut off the gamp should they remain in the gulch. There was no need to keep quiet; so, putting my best foot forward, I ran, or rather leaped, the dis- tance in good time. On reaching the desired spot I saw the two Wapiti right under me, still in the watercourse, and the moccasined boy-stalker just settling down to open fire at eighty or ninety yards. I had run nearly as far as he had, but was considerably ''pumped, ^' and, besides, my shot would be quite double or treble as far as his. Before he had time to shoot, the game had got my wind, and swerving sharply, ascended the very precipitous sides of the gulch. Whipping out my glass, I watched the boy^s fire. Taking the leader first, which was the smaller of the two, he hit him out of his seven shots every time, but so indifferently that the stag's movements were not im- peded. They were now close to the top, ani twenty yards more would take them out of our sight. I had t