. Our country: West. 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,
. Our country: West. 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. Capturing an Elk. second man could have thrown a lasso from the other side, butboth men could not possibly have held the elk on this descent,which presented neither tree nor jutting crag, and where nowthe creature seemed to have found firmer foothold. Away hewent, still down the mountain ; the man who had roped himclung to the line, allowing himself to be drawn, the snowflying from his skees. The other man made his best speed,but was being left behind. The elk was plainly headed for a thicket of pines somedistance below. He followed his instinct in this, and he alsodid the worst possible thing for himself. It was what the two HUNTING E1,K ON SKEES. 77 hunters most desired. On he went, and in less than a minutehad plunged among the trees, and in an instant more wasstruggling in the snow, for the hunter had snubbed his linearound a tree and had the creature fast. He might, however,have inflicted some injury upon himself if the other hunter,coming up, had not thrown his lasso from the ot
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