. American animal life . raceand agility that are grand. His favorite feeding-ground is above timber-line, on the treelessslopes, where he finds grasses and wild flowers. It is surprising how many different, won-derful Mowers grow about the glaciers. Once, while spending a while on the glaciers inGlacier National Park, we picked twenty-four different varieties of flowers in halt an hour,inside of a few yards; the abundance of vegetation in these ice-bound fields is mother sheep stays in the most inaccessible places with her lambs, far up abovetimber-line, so that they can, at th
. American animal life . raceand agility that are grand. His favorite feeding-ground is above timber-line, on the treelessslopes, where he finds grasses and wild flowers. It is surprising how many different, won-derful Mowers grow about the glaciers. Once, while spending a while on the glaciers inGlacier National Park, we picked twenty-four different varieties of flowers in halt an hour,inside of a few yards; the abundance of vegetation in these ice-bound fields is mother sheep stays in the most inaccessible places with her lambs, far up abovetimber-line, so that they can, at the least sign of danger, get out of reach of the foe. Theworst enemy of these people of the wild is the eagle ; but the mother can guard her babiesfrom him. In the spring the flocks will venture down to find better feeding-grounds in the valleys;but it is not long before they return to the rocky fastness of their mountain home, out of theway of the wolves and the mountain-lions, their greatest enemies on the plains MOUNTAIN-SHEEP AND LITTLE CHIEF HARE It is good that the mountain-sheep knows the great mountains arc his friends and hisprotectors, for, from this fortified home, his keen sense of sight, hearing, and smell helpshim to detect an enemy at a long distance. His horns, great, massive, wonderful things, are the crowning glory of a hunter; thoughthe Indians see in them only a big soup-ladle! Even the females have horns. Fortunatelv, it is unlawful, in many states, to kill this majestic creature, and he will con-tinue to grace our great western country. His general color is gray, with a large whitepatch on his hmd quarters. When this war}- creature sees a hunter at a great distance, he starts up the well-beaten,steep trail. These favorite trails lead up the slopes of high mountains, rugged and jagged,to above timber-line, on into the land of perpetual snow. Here the sheep find plenty ofgray mosses, and, many times, large patches of splendid grass. In winter there is
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