. 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 . d thar waseasier money to git, and returned home. But back of Scottys sinister gray eyes wasthe fibre of dogged persistency that has madehis race the masters of the world. He returnedwith Mitchell to the shanty, but only to preparefor a long and obstinate hunt. His rifle, hisblanket, his pipe, with matches, tobacco, a pot,a bundle of jerked venison, and three or fourpounds of chocolate were all he carried. Hereturned alone next day to the place wh
. 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 . d thar waseasier money to git, and returned home. But back of Scottys sinister gray eyes wasthe fibre of dogged persistency that has madehis race the masters of the world. He returnedwith Mitchell to the shanty, but only to preparefor a long and obstinate hunt. His rifle, hisblanket, his pipe, with matches, tobacco, a pot,a bundle of jerked venison, and three or fourpounds of chocolate were all he carried. Hereturned alone next day to the place where hehad left the track of the Ram, and followed itfast in the snow, winding about, in and out, andobscured by those of his band, but always dis-tinguishable by its size. Once or twice Scottycame on the spots where the band had beenlying down, and from time to time he scannedthe distance with his glass. But he saw nothingof them. At night he camped on their trail;next day he took it up again. After followingfor hours, he came on the place where evidentlythe Ram had stopped to watch him afar, andso knew of his pursuer. Thenceforth the trail83. ^^<-t^ Kfagf, the Kootenay Ram of the band for a long time was a single line asthey headed for distant pastures. Scotty followed doggedly behind; all dayhe followed, and at night, in a little hollow,crouched like a wild beast in his lair, with thisdifference only: he had a fire, and he smoked apipe in very human fashion. In the morninghe went on as before. Once or twice in the fardistance he saw the band of Sheep travellingsteadily southward. Wext day passed, andthe Sheep were driven to the south end ofthe Yak-in-i-kak range, just north of WhitefishLake. South of this was the Half-moon Prairie, eastthe broken land that stretched toward the northfork of the Flathead, and north of them theirpertinacious and deadly foe. The Sheep werein doubt now, and as old Krag sought to sneakback by the lower benches of the east slope,he heard a crack!
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