A RAM STROLLS INTO VIEW 21

as incapable as the one already told about. The two of
them had walked all morning in a few inches of snow
without even seeing a track, and, shortly after 12 o’clock,
descended to where they could find wood enough to light
a fire and eat their lunch in comfort. Apparently the
warmth of the fire made them both sleepy after their
exertions, for, when they had. eaten their sandwiches
and smoked a pipe or two, they both dozed off until the
fire died down, and they woke up feeling chilly. Whereupon
they decided that sheep hunting was not the sport it was
cracked up to be, and that camp was the best place for
them on such a day. Then, at the very instant that
they picked up their rifles to go, a ram strolled leisurely
out of a gulch and stood broadside on to them not fifty
yards away. In this case the shooting was better, as the
first shot hit the ram so badly that he could not go far,
and a second shot finished him off.