Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-10
IN YELLOWSTONE PARK.


 Black-tail deer and antelope he saw feeding on the slopes on either side of the road from Gardiner to the fort, and even on the parade ground. Some times the rattle of the cavalcade, of which he has the head, caused them to turn and look. More often they fed on without paying the slightest atten- ton to the rumbling and the cloud of dust But when Lieutenant Cullen asked the president if he would not Ike to soa some mountain sheep, MT Roosevelt's credulity rebelled at the strain, He had come out for fun, and he was willing, perhaps, to have lit tie joking done at his expense, pro- lsvided it was not inconsistent with the Eof the army. But in his day he had traveled for weeks out from his ranch 1 on the Little Missouri in search of big horn sheep, and had shot a few of them only after terrific exertions and the risk of his afterwards distinguish led life. Go out for an afternoons stroll and ''see few mountain sheep?" The president laughed. Then they l told him that they had omitted the sa- Ilute of tWenty-one guns with which 1 the president should be greeted at an army post because they did not want l to scare away the game which had come into the fort during the day-as | it did every day One of the lieuten- l ants remarked afterwards that there was a look in the presidential eye when this excuse was made to him l which seemed to make it exceedingly I desirable that there should be no mis- take about having game come around LII O nFT FN0f aY~tia ir0cr 1 However, it was no joke
 l Lieutenant Cullen led the president and John Burroughs, the naturalist, who had been invited from New York by the president to accompany him on his journey through the Yellowstone, to a hill near the fort, where there were twenty-one mountain sheep feed ing. They rode into hollow and dis mounted, and then MT Roosevelt had an opportunity to learn whether he had lost his hunters cunning. By short approaches, by remaining crouching for ten minutes at a time, by apparent indifference, he managed to approach within twenty paces of the creatures. Such a result was as tonishing, even to the park people, ac- customed as they were to remarkable instances of the confidence which safe I ty has given tot he wild animals of the park.
 was on the first day that the presi- dents big white troop horse Napoleon stumbled on the BlacktaH trail. Had I MT Roosevelt been tenderfoot and possessed of a panicky distrust of the ability of the horse to right himself, national history might easily have been changed, for the horse was on mar row shelving ledge above precipice which dropped sheer for hundreds of feet. But inasmuch as MT Roosevelt was not making this expedition as an experiment, but out of love for rough ing it born of many years of expert ence, he let the horse save himself in his own way-the major and the lieu q tenant meanwhile looking at one an other with scared thankfulness in their eyes and cold chill at their hearts Once a coyote, a pecst of the park clasesd by the conservators with the mountain lions, trotted out across the trail. One of the packers hastily un. slung a rifle and brought it forward to the president. It was then that he informed his companions that he would not fire shot in the Yellow stone even though a cougar should come out of the forest and make in sulting faces at him-Lindsay Deni son in The Illustrated Sporting News