. Where rolls the Oregon . Natural history; Natural history. VIII THE ROCKS FOR THE CONIES 1 e were hunting for mountain sheep in the wildest peaks of the Wal- lowa range, and incidentally had tried the fishing in the Imnaha. Such trout! But it is so in all the Oregon rivers. We were after mountain sheep, not trout, and we came off with a cony. It was not the first time. Many an expedition has so turned out; many of mine, I mean, conies for sheep, the feeble folk for the strong rangers of the high hills. Life is not a matter of size, except, perhaps, to the hunter. To the naturalist and lover
. Where rolls the Oregon . Natural history; Natural history. VIII THE ROCKS FOR THE CONIES 1 e were hunting for mountain sheep in the wildest peaks of the Wal- lowa range, and incidentally had tried the fishing in the Imnaha. Such trout! But it is so in all the Oregon rivers. We were after mountain sheep, not trout, and we came off with a cony. It was not the first time. Many an expedition has so turned out; many of mine, I mean, conies for sheep, the feeble folk for the strong rangers of the high hills. Life is not a matter of size, except, perhaps, to the hunter. To the naturalist and lover of nature, life is a matter of kind, the cony after his kind being as interesting as the wild goat after his kind, or the stork after her kind. I doubt, indeed, if ever the mystery and wonder of animal life impressed me more than while I sat by the cony slide on a peak above the clouds asking the little. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sharp, Dallas Lore, 1870-1929. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin
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