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moved rapidly. The fetus
was gray like the parents
in color but in a few day's
of birth. Some of the goats
or mountain sheep were in fat
condition.
(26) In the morning we again
went out for goat. A on the
east side I saw the nest.
Another goat, a yearling,
got to my rifle at
400 yds across the river.
In the afternoon I shot an old
E in the same spot practically
she was on a cliff when I
hit her she tumbled
down on her back. Her four
legs broken high up only
A was near the river & he
came down to shoot her then
the neck as she fell ran to
the river margin. She then
floated down stream, it was
recovered by one of the men
who followed it down stream.
This one also contained a
large fetus. It is quite evident
that I early in May the kid got