THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Thursday, July 1, 1909, THE Hed t were localities where yh been numerous, and even were left were to be found greatly diminished numbers. particular Fr the band had beer fore. There boar the one After peccar and one fmpro to tt 0 all Many of wi days rar l rar speedily where they only In On this fo anch last little ever ful Having were no ranch, and belng my holiday, | to the effort to get when a cowman happened to mention the fact that were to found the Nueces River thirty miles or there abouts to the southward. Thither | determined to go, and next morning Moore and I started in a buggy drawn | by a redoubtable named Jim Swinger, which were allowed to use because he btcked under the saddle that nobody on the ranch could | tide him. We drove six or seven hours across the dry, waterless plains, In the valley of the Nueces Itself the brush grew thick. There were great groves of pecan trees, and ever green live-oaks stood In many places, wonugh deer were ent wif left on neariy at about any, there Frio end of that the the satisfied my Javalinas wns abandon passing still be Some on horse ve 80 CDORE ROOSEVELT n we and y 1 ane came up looked bris of ten and {ll-sl Amster, 1 VIrses some and to the oth« hundred started one end ra tl ugh I doubt if the teamster much wished ft his side No keener ph than and good shot, elk Iving dead the great evergreens, massive and at the to in and proof of hunting the elk kind o rt ns imagined; there Is ant and enjoyable time It demands that the hunter shal bring Into play many manly qual There have been few days of my hunt ing life that were so full of unalloyed happiness as were those spent on the Bighorn range From morning til night 1 was on foot, In cool, bracing alr, now moving silently through the vast, melancholy pine forests, now treading the brink of high, rocky prec iplces, always amid the most grand and beatiful scenery: and always after na noble and lordly game ag is to be found In the Western world. Since writing nbove 1 killed an elk near my ranch; probably the last of his race that will ever be found in our neighborhood. It was just before the fall round-up. An old hunter, who was under some obligation to me, told me that he had shot a cow elk and had seen the tracks of one or two others not more than twenty-five miles sports ! : Y feel much essful stalk walks up to a grand shade of looks at the ulded form which are trophy stil when a Sue the cool and and yet finely mighty antlers the futu HIS SOC re as the saful skill mountains is as can be leas serve the noble a well nothing more | and at the same ties the and killed the little beast with a from the saddle when It had to bay, turnlbg and going at him, Two of the peccarles got otf; the rather large boar, was followed by the two dogs, and as soon as 1 had killed the gow I leaped again on my hors after gulded by In Yess than a they w wheeled tion, shot come straight remaining one, a mode hem, ere on under 1" . arglog at the they ing one, inflicting und 1 a shot Jolned ER ei nai a—— the he 1d Pex itely short foot the tr ks looking culiarly do ne take to the feed on nse moulded are small in wt swim water if roots, prick 1% lizards, et keep entirely separate of half-wild swine that found in the neighborhoods: but In one case, on this very ranch where 1 was staying, a pec cary ly Joined a party of nine pigs and associated with them When the owner of the pigs came up to them the peccary man fested great suspicion at his presence, and finally sidled close up and threat. ened to kK him, so that he had to shoot it The ranchman's son told me timt he had never but once had a pec cary assall him saoprovoked, and even In this case It was his dog that was the object of attack, the peccary rushing out as it followed him home one even ing through the chaparral, Even around this ranch the peccaries had very greatly decreased in numbers, and | the survivors were learning some can tion, In the old days it had been © uncommon thing for a big band to a tack entirely of thelr own accord, and dainty Conse nee i », thes well gh thes neces ly p> They from sary They ATS, usually the are droves so often 80 Me 4 deliberate day one atta | kéep a hunter up a tree for hours at atime NEXT WEEK : “Hunt- ing The Buffalo.” | sistent eration of your health, | providing for your TELLS OF EXPENSES. 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