The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-11-24

Minnesota Vibrator Smelling out
bushel OF hard wheat minute we try
to control ourselves enough to get the
front and rear sights in alignment
Bang says the trusty $780, snap, whiz,
says the soft nosed bullet as it makes a
rickasha on q rock about half way to
the mark. Billy steps up on a small
cliff and gives US an inquiring glance
as If to ask what we were shooting at or
to warn us to be carefulo or we might
hurt some one. Raise your sights to
four hundred yards, now your excite
ment has cooled down some and with
steady aim the hammer is again releas-
ed. Ha, Billy jumps this time. I'll bet
hit him. Up we go over the Slick
rock we have been laying on into an
other canyon, up a ways then take to
steep incline shrubbed with mountain
ash, vine maple and laural brush. Rip
goe my trousers when | step on
wet dead fir limb and find my top
most anatomy where my feet should
be, more or less twisted and woven
among the brush; matters righted once
more we tried to CONTROL our haste
Up and up we go, now we stop to draw
breath and see Billy on a cliff some
hundred yards nearer the top. But
still we have hopes of finding blood
stains on the cliff above. AT length we
reach the rock where Billy stood but
| find our shot struck foot or more
under the target so he was as safe as
though he had been a mile away. Now
is when our ambition leaves us, there
is no use of thinking we can etanother
shot for Mr.. Goat appears no larger
than a snowshoe rabbit now and he
was certainly six hundred yards away
from us that last shot, practically out
of range altogether. We remove our
pack straps and partake of a badly
jammed lunch, looking down into the
valley probably 5000 feet below, we
begin TO realize that goat hunting is
not all together play and may decide
We have learned some important
points, first, that Billy is a good checker
player lie knows when and where to
move, when to jump and how to play in
double corner. Second, we have
learned that strategy should be used to
get above the game when possible, as
goats only go up when alarmed and
only go down when wounded, third,
we may be easily deceived as to dis
lance. We forget the laws of perspec-
tive while in the valley looking up an
incline plane. That white object on a
dark back ground appears much nearer
than they would if at the same distance
on level with US. This may seem all
good and well but now comes task OF
different nature, that OF climbing
down. We start but it seems as though
our feet should be on the other end, to
retrace our trail may be out of the
question, now we descend for a ways
all right but at once find ourselves on
the very brink of precipice, getting
around this by way of a canyon we at
times find it necessary to sit down and
slide inch by inch, now and then being
in places where it seems almost certain
death to move. When once more
in the valley we may consider ourselves
in good luck. That might've had
nightmare, brownies and all sorts of
visions. We were somewhat surprised
that Billy did not jump off cliff TO
rocks below strike on his horns and
bound about like q rubber ball as some
would have him do, he behaved him
self quite we'll and seemed as careful as
sheep. There are men that claim
they can go any place goat can but
they forget that others have tried that
when they make such assertions. The
Indian is the most daring but often
finds himself outwitted. We may have
another hunt later from an experienced
sportsman's standpoint. DeLos.