. Trottings of a tenderfoot, or, A visit to the Columbian fiords [microform]. Hunting; Chasse. â pi "f ' THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GO A T: 155 care in treading them was thrown away. But at last we gained a point at which a small moraine ran down the mountain-side, and along the edge of this we crept quietly enough. Looking down through the timber below, another eye caught mine, and my finger in- stinctively curled round the trigger. Broad- side on, with his head turned to me (passant regardant, I think heralds call the position), was the first Columbian deer I had seen; not one of the poor Uttle
. Trottings of a tenderfoot, or, A visit to the Columbian fiords [microform]. Hunting; Chasse. â pi "f ' THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GO A T: 155 care in treading them was thrown away. But at last we gained a point at which a small moraine ran down the mountain-side, and along the edge of this we crept quietly enough. Looking down through the timber below, another eye caught mine, and my finger in- stinctively curled round the trigger. Broad- side on, with his head turned to me (passant regardant, I think heralds call the position), was the first Columbian deer I had seen; not one of the poor Uttle black-tailed variety with small four or six point heads, but a big fellow with twelve points as regularly set above his forehead as nature could contrive them. He was a superb beast, and nothing could have saved him from my rifle, as he stood for three minutes not forty yards away; but my desire to bag the goats prevailed, and with a sigh I let the tall beast go, feeling that unless the goats gave me a shot when I rounded the next bluflf, fortune would be more cruel than such self-denial merited. And of courseâthe goats "â y- â m f. 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 Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, 1854-1918. London : R. Bentley
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