. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . ragf, the Kootenay Ram for not even a Bighorn can drop two hundredfeet on rock and Hve. Krag now turned on his other foe with doublefury. One more shock and the stranger wasthrown, defeated. He leaped to his feet andbounded off. For a time Krag urged him tofurther flight by the same means that Krinkle-horn once used to persecute him, then returnedin triumph to live unmolested with his family. XII ScoTTY had gone from his Tobacco Creeklocation in 1
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . ragf, the Kootenay Ram for not even a Bighorn can drop two hundredfeet on rock and Hve. Krag now turned on his other foe with doublefury. One more shock and the stranger wasthrown, defeated. He leaped to his feet andbounded off. For a time Krag urged him tofurther flight by the same means that Krinkle-horn once used to persecute him, then returnedin triumph to live unmolested with his family. XII ScoTTY had gone from his Tobacco Creeklocation in 1887. The game was pretty wellhunted out. Sheep had become very scarce,news of new gold strikes in Colorado had at-tracted him southward, and the old shanty wasdeserted. Five years went by with Krag as theleading Ram. It was five years under a goodgenius, with an evil genius removed—five yearsof prosperity, then, for the Bighorn. Krag carried further the old ideas that wereknown to his mother. He taught his band toabjure the lowlands entirely. The forest cov-erts were full of evil, and the only land of safety65 ^: f4,f Kfag, the Kootenay Ram. was the open, wind-swept peaks, where neitherLions nor riflemen could approach unseen. Hefound more than one upland salt-lick where theirnatural need could be suppHed without thedangerous lowland journeys that they once hadthought necessary. He taught his band neverto walk along the top of a ridge, but alwaysalong one side, so as to look down both wayswithout being conspicuous. And he added onefamous invention of his own. This was thehide. If a hunter chances close to a bandof Sheep before they see him, the old plan wasto make a dash for safety—a good enoughplan in the days of bows and arrows or even ofmuzzle-loading rifles, but the repeating rifle is adiflferent arm. Krag himself learned, and thentaught his tribe, to crouch and lie perfectly stillwhen thus surprised. In nine cases out of tenthis will baffle a human hunter, as Krag foun
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