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Show Hunting Bighorn In Wyoming. In the Into seventies, In tho Rattle-snako Rattle-snako mountains, as the southern spur of tho Bighorn range In Wyoming Is enlled, ono November afternoon I had sighted a small band of rams lying up on a nnrrow ledge within shot of which by dint of a long round, I thought 1 could pet with some certnluty of success. suc-cess. Tho only question that troubled me was whether it wns wise, to undertake under-take tho stalk in the face of what looked to bo an approaching bllz.ard. hi, less tlinn half an hour I had reached what I thought wns the point above tho rams from which a steep gully led down tO'tlte spot from whence 1 expected to get my shot. I say "thought" for tho storm had now broken, and in tho whirling snow my movements had, for tho last ten mlmitcs, been mere guesswork. guess-work. The lateness of the hour and tho apparent ap-parent hopelessness of finding my game under such unfavorable surroundings made mo hurry down the gully with anything but noiseless haste. Hut the unexpectod happened; long beforo 1 considered that 1 was down low cnourrh I suddenly found myself In tho very middle of the bund. Drlycu away from their exposed ledge, probably by stress of water, they were in tho act of as-sending as-sending the gully down which 1 was hastening. Old "trnll-stopper," mv double express, was slung over my shoulder by Us strap In chamois stalker's stalk-er's fashion, nnd, what was worse, it was not even loaded. My fingers were cramped with cold, nnd it muse have t'iken mo some seconds to fumble in iuy pockets for two cartridges and get tliem into the chambers, my eyes, of coarse, being fixed nil the lime on tho nuns standing motionless and looking intently at tho strange appearance that had so suddenly emerged out of tho whirling snow. 1 wns not doing any line shooting that afternoon. Hut what I was extraordinary about that band was 1 Uat tho'y did not take to their heels until, I ud empted both barrels nt tho rearmost rum, the llrst shot caualnac it n,tiliingtcoimotlon. W.A. ItaHUe C.rohmnn In out(ag!'t,tttWtKltMttmtiil |