into the open garden stepping with in grace followed by two others after showing themselves for a moment they bounded over the hedge with sharp timid and vanished but curiosity brought them back with still another and all four came into my among the animals op the garden and satisfied that i meant them no ill began to f actually eating breakfast with me like tame gentle sheep around a shepherd � rare company and the most graceful in move ments and attitudes i eagerly watched them while they fed on and wild cherry single leaves here and there from the side of the hedge turning now and then to a few leaves of from the midst of the garden flowers grass they did not eat at all no wonder the contents of the deer s stomach are eaten by the indians while e the upper of the north fork of the san one evening the sky threatening rain i searched for a dry bed and made choice of a big that had been pushed down by a snow but was resting on its knees high enough to let me lie under its broad trunk just below my shelter there was another on the very brink of a precipice and examining it i found a deer bed beneath it completely protected and concealed by drooping branches � a fine refuge and as well as resting place about an hour before dark i heard the clear sharp of d� r u d down on th j rocky bottom discovered an anxious that no doubt had her concealed near by she bounded over the and up the f ar ther slope of the wall often stopping to look our national back and listen � a fine picture of vivid eager i sat perfectly still and as my shirt was colored like the bark i was not easily seen after a httle she came cautiously toward � � � the air and � d h� ments as she descended the side over piles and brush and fallen timber were admirably strong and beautiful she never strained or made apparent efforts although jumping high here and there as she drew nigh she anxiously trying the air in different directions until she caught my scent then bounded off and vanished behind a small grove of soon she came back with the same caution and curiosity � coming and going five or six times while i sat admiring her a evidently excited by her noisy climbed a beneath me and witnessed her performances as attentively as i did t� r� or h for such shows busied himself about his supper in a thicket of the fruit of which was then ripe glancing about on the slender twigs as a toward the end of the indian summer when the young are strong the deer begin to gather in little bands of from six to fifteen or twenty and on the approach of the first they set out on their march down the mountains to their winter quarters lingering usually on warm among the animals of the and spurs eight or ten miles the as if to leave about the end of november a heavy far reaching storm drives them down in haste along the dividing between the rivers led by old experienced whose knowledge of the is wonderful it is when the deer are coming down that the indians set out on their grand fall hunt too lazy to go into the recesses of the mountains away from they wait for the deer to come out and then them this plan also has the advantage of finding them in bands great preparations are made old guns are mended bullets and the hunters wash themselves and fast to some extent to good luck as they say men and women old and young set forth together central are made on the well known of the deer which are soon red with blood each hunter comes in laden old as well as maidens smiling on the all grow fat and merry boys each armed with an head play at buck fighting and plague the industrious women who are busily preparing the meat for by stealing up behind them and throwing fresh hides over them but the indians are passing away here as everywhere and their red on the mountains are fewer every year our national there are and in the park but not in large numbers i have seen well back in the range at the head of the meadows as early as june ist before the snow was gone feeding on but they are far more numerous on the inhabited around where they enjoy hfe on chickens eggs ground etc and all kinds of fruit few wild sheep i fear are left for though safe on the high peaks they are driven down the eastern slope of the mountains when the deer are driven down the western to and spurs where the snow does not fall to a great depth and there they are within reach of the s the two of the park the and the gray keep all the woods lively the former is far more abundant and more widely distributed being found all the way up from the to the dwarf pines on the summit peaks he is the most influential of the animals though small and the brightest of all the i know � a of quick mountain vigor and purely wild and as free from disease as a one cannot think of such an animal ever being weary or sick he claims all the woods and is inclined to drive away even men as how he and what faces he makes if among the animals of the not so small he would be a dreadful fellow the gray is the i think of all the large american he is something like the eastern gray but is brighter and clearer in color and more and 