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ragged spires and granite outcrops
traced with delicate shades of pink
& lavender. Butter too. Beneath
our feet are slabs of pure white gray
marble, great blocks of greenish gelspar
and
Far to the west the peaks give place
to a among the peaks are deep ravines
the bottoms and steeply sloping sides clothed
with grass, now brown & dry. Where the
sheep are found. There they can graze or sit
sleep with the granite boulders around them,
where they can take themselves when danger
threatens. Far to the west the the peaks
give place to rolling uplands, patched
with snow. In these grassy meadows
we always found herds of game wild
not there guarded by a male or
two, but the larger herds were other
solitary, wandering about among the
roughest sections of the hills.
On this morning Harry and I climbed the
white trail together, at the summit we
separated. we now both making for the
uplands met by different routes. Harry
followed up the bed of a stream while
the old hunter I continued along
the ridges. He evidently did not
expect to find sheep in the ravines
for he kept straight on mile after mile