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After the photographing and measuring were
completed we resumed the sheep, a two
hour job. The head, skin, & leg bones
weighed at least 100 lbs and the old
wolf carcass as we tucked it
up in Bruce Mingle's back we looked at the
ants we had seen a grizzly. It was
only half past three but we were a long way
from camp.
I went on ahead hoping to put up a
rebound or a wolf but we reached the
summit of the first ridge with not seeing
anything save a flock of chuckares. On
the summit we found the trail over
which we had made our way in the
morning. Half a mile further on, it was
walking freely to hunt until when he jerked
me violently behind a ledge of rock--"Paw
yang" he whispered "there in the woods
Can you see him" I could not, and he tried
to point it with my rifle. Just at that
instant what I had supposed to be a
brown rock, came to life in a swirl of
dust & vanished into the ravine below me.
For two minutes we waited--it seemed
hours--then the head & shoulders of a
sheep appeared from behind a boulder. It
came low, fast and the animal crumpled
out his tracks. A moment later three other
sheep, two rams came dash out from