. Our country: West. e gave up all attempt toovertake them or to get a shotat their operations with the elk,but contented himself with thepicture he had already taken oftheir seeming drop into space,and with keeping them in view. Meantime the elk was off ina series of tremendous bounds ;but his course lay almost later-ally along the side of the moun-tain, while the two hunters,going at a speed which couldhardly be less than his, wereheading him off by a flankingmovement. Every secondbrought them nearer together. At last the elk, whichBrackett thought was the largest horned animal he had everse
. Our country: West. e gave up all attempt toovertake them or to get a shotat their operations with the elk,but contented himself with thepicture he had already taken oftheir seeming drop into space,and with keeping them in view. Meantime the elk was off ina series of tremendous bounds ;but his course lay almost later-ally along the side of the moun-tain, while the two hunters,going at a speed which couldhardly be less than his, wereheading him off by a flankingmovement. Every secondbrought them nearer together. At last the elk, whichBrackett thought was the largest horned animal he had everseen, seemed to realize that he was being headed off. He turned sharply and plunged straight down the moun-tainside. Brackett heard the two hunters shout to eachother ; they swerved apart in such a way that the plunginganimal appeared between them in Bracketts line of he dropped quite out of sight over a ledge, beyondwhich Brackett saw nothing but blue sky. The two hunters plunged straight on, and the young. Elk. 76 HUNTING ELK ON SKEES. photographer gasped, for it seemed to him that they werewhirling to certain death over a precipice. But meantime hewas himself advancing at an extremely swift rate of speed ;and his path presently brought into view a bench of themountain below the ledge. Over it the two men went. The elk came into view again,plunging heavily in deep snow. The hunters, one on eachside, came up with him. Without a word or sound, the manon the right cast his lasso ; it fell over the great animalshorns, and was instantly drawn taut. And now began a strange chase, comparable to that of awhale at sea into which a harpoon has been thrown. The _ij^J!i!5
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