the same spot stripped upon the hillside, 100 yds away. I looked at them instinctively I sighted on the largest, but dropped my rifle without touching the trigger. The ram was small, even if we did need horns for the group we could not carry him back to camp that night. If we left him, the wolves would surely devour his carcass before lay by light. So I let them go, with the mental reservation that on the morrow they two would be added to the list of specimens for the group. It took careful climbing down an almost perpendicular slope open to reach the spot where the first sheep had fallen. It was a fine young ram, just what we wanted for the group. We skinned him quickly, cut off the best parts of the flesh & packed it to go upon my shoulders. The bundle weighed about 40 lbs and I two groaned when I looked at the two mt. ranges between me and camp. It was already five clock & in an hour or would be dark as we hurried down to the bottom of the valley, made by my rifle. the night drove follow the stream bed and in the plain other it was four or five times as far as across