THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT BELLEFONTE PA | HUNTING MOUNTAIN SHEEP THEODORE ROOSEVELT | | THE BY [Copyright, 1885, by G. P. Putnam's Sons Published under arrangement with G, P Putnam's Sons, New York and London.) IG-HORN, more common ly known as mountain sheep, are extremely wary and cautious ani mals, and are plentiful in but few places. This is rather surprising, for they seem to be fafrly prolific (al though not as much so as deer and antelope), and comparatively few are killed by the hunters. In size the big-horn comes next to buffalo and elk, averaging larger thaa the black-tail deer, while an old ram will sometimes be almost as heavy as cow elk. In his movements he Is not light and graceful like the prong-horn and other antelopes, his marvellous agllity seeming rather to proceed from sturdy strength and won and muscles. The huge horns are carried proudly erect the neck; every motion of the body is made with perfect | no ground so diffi cannot cross it. massive ise; and there seems to 11t that the big-horn broken ground Is a per 14 irpris to any one that ha unted m; and the rams, while seem almost certainly follow lead. To him the barren wastes of the Bad Lands offer a most attractive home: yet to other living creatures they are at all times as grimly desolate and for- bidding as any spot on earth can be; at all seasons they hostile to every form life Occasionally the big-horn come down into the or along the slopes to and in the bane est look-o they beat fastoe early mornin drink at the as the lambs well able to climb, ax anu PWes even the very young as wherever thelr elders seem of grassy often, «S08 Up the slippery loocovered bulles we clambered Time and again they wi! be mistaken for boulders, and, on the other hand, I have more than ouce stalked up to masses of sandstone that I have mis taken for shoep, When lying down the bighorn can HOLE 248385 HHH, a cess, Up the slippery, Ice-covered buttes we clambered, clinging to the rocks, and slowly working our way across the faces of the cliffs, or cau tiously creeping along the narrow ledges, peering over every crest long and carefully, and from the peaks scanning the ground all about with the fleld-glasses. But we saw no sheep, and but little sign of them. Finally we struck the head of a long, winding valley with a smooth bottom, and after cantering down It four or five miles, came to the river, just after the cold, pale-red sun had sunk behind the line of hills ahead of us. Our horses were sharp shod, and crossed the ice without difficulty; and In a grove of leafless cotton-woods, on the opposite side, we found the hut for which we had been making, the cow- boy already Inside with the fire started Throughout the night the temperature sank lower and lower, and it was impossible to keep the crazy old hut anywhere near freezing- the wind whistled through the and crannles of the logs, and, rt and by no means elad were iad down with our great fu the lle of bu to cower the buttes rose highest ’ we came upon fresh but tracks, 1 as it was then late in the afternoon, did not try to follow them When near the hut 1 killed a sharptall for supper, making rather a neat shot, the bird being eighty yards off. The night was colder than the preceding signs told us that we have a the weat that day even and all would one, soon change worse In ber, whi all but the test vegetation, on some of tl grew 3 save + sheltered sides where groves of dar) ines, now laden down with feathery snow. The clim Ing was as hard as ever. At first went straight up the side of the tallest peak, and then along the knife ridge ined It the next The ice made the footing very slippery as we stepped along the ledges or crawled round the jutting shoulders, and we had to look earefully for our footholds: while in the thin al: every quick burst we made up a steep hill caused us to pant for breath. We had gone but a little way before we saw fresh signs of the animals we were after, but It was some time be fore we came upon the quarry ‘tself We left the high ground and de scending Into a narrow chasm walked along its bottom, which was but a couple of feet wide, while the sides rose up ut an acute angle After following this for a few hundred yards, we turned a sharp corner, and shortly afterward our eyes were caught by some grains of fresh earth lying on the snow In front of our feet, On the sides, some feet above our heads, were marks in the snow which a moment's glance showed us had beea made by a couple of mountain sheep that had come down one side of the gorge and had leaped across to the we ike which J with cold, from It | other, thelr sharp toes going through | | the thin snow and displacing the earth | that had fallen to the bottom. The | tracks bad evidently been made just before we rounded the corner, and as to the other, we concluded that by run. | ning along its top we would be most certain to get a good shot, Clambering Instantly up the steep side, digging my hands and feet into the snow, and grasping at every little rock or frozen projection, 1 reached the top; and then ran forward along the ridge a few crouching behind the queerly-shaped sandstone; about ninety yards off across the ravine, a couple of mountain rams. The with the largest horns was broadside toward me, his sturdy, mass ive form outlined clearly against the sky, ns he stood .on the crest of the ridge. 1 dropped on my knee, raising the rifle as 1 did so; for a second he did not quite make me out, turning his head half round to look. 1 held the sight fairly on the point just behind his shoulder and pulled the trigger. At the report staggered and pitched forward, but recovered himself and crossed over the ridge out of sight We jumped and slid down into the ra- vine again, and clambered up the op- posite side as fast as our lungs and slippery Ice would let us; then taking the unded ram we trot ted along had not far loose paces, of and saw, IMABSCS one he trail of the w We 10 BO! crosswise, golng* a gh ould have gone with such a wound than a mountain ram any distance at all He had most obligingly run round a part of the ull! where we could bring up one of the horses much difficulty. A without very cordingly 1 brought who can carry and the ge very lar {WO Years « y time r we wer ned Hmbs before the log fire, | gratulated myself upon the success ful outcome of what 1 knew the last hunting trip 1 should ing that season The of this plished without would be take dur deat} ram accon ing for any very good shooting our part. He was standing than a hundred yards off, when the shot was fired: and we came ne 80 « accident. Sill fairly deserved our luck, for we had hunted with the most patient and palostaking care fron dawn till nightfall for the better par of three days, spend! of the time in climbing at rate o speed up sheer cliffs and o and slippery ground, Still-hantl big-horn I= always a tollsomeo and rious task, and the very bitter wen ther during which we had been out had not lessened the difficulty of the work though In the cold It was much less ex hausting than It would have been to have hunted across the same ground in summer. No other kind of hunting does as much to bring out the good qualities, both moral and physical, of the sportsmen who follow It. If a man keeps at It, It Is bound to make him was cal on still, less oss him lose merely bs we Hove mont rmart both hardy and resolute: to strengthen | his muscles and 011 ont his Jungs, Mountain mutton is in the fall the mont delicious eating furniabed by any game animel. Nothing else compages with It for julciness, tenderness, and flavor; but at all other times of the year It Is tough, stringy, and worthless That many a man in Bellefonte is Judged by what he hasn't done. oo STRUCK BY TRAIN AT MILL HALL SYLVESTER BRADY KILLED FRIDAY NIGHT FOUND ALONGSIDE THE TRACK Accident—Was a Lamar—-Was on His Was Old Sol- LAST Died Soon After the Resident of Way Home dier. in and shot The Mea Policeman rthy yw the beneficial fects of Scott's Emulsion in a very short time. | not only buil but enriches the mother’ milk and properly nour ishes the child. Nearly all mothers whe nurse theirchildrenshot take this splendid only to tonic, not up their own strength to properly nourish their children. 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