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Enos A. Mills. Watched by Wild Animals
Watched by Wild Animals
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT
CHAPTER II. THE HAYMAKER OF THE HEIGHTS
CHAPTER III. INTRODUCING MR. AND MRS. SKUNK
CHAPTER IV. THE PERSISTENT BEAVER
CHAPTER V. THE OTTER PLAYS ON
CHAPTER VI. THE BIGHORN IN THE SNOW
CHAPTER VII. THE CLOWN OF THE PRAIRIES
CHAPTER VIII. THE BLACK BEAR—COMEDIAN
CHAPTER IX. ON WILD LIFE TRAILS
CHAPTER X. REBUILDING A BEAVER COLONY
CHAPTER XI. THE WARY WOLF
CHAPTER XII. WINTER WAYS OF ANIMALS
CHAPTER XIII. PRONGHORN OF THE PLAINS
CHAPTER XIV. THE MOUNTAIN LION
CHAPTER XV. FAMINE IN BEAVER-LAND
CHAPTER XVI. DOG-TOWN DIGGINGS
CHAPTER XVII. ECHO MOUNTAIN GRIZZLY
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Enos A. Mills
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Slide rock—the home of the cony—frequently is his tomb. All cliffs are slowly falling to pieces, and occasionally a clinging mass weighing hundreds and possibly thousands of tons lets go and down the slide rock it tumbles, bounding, crushing, and tearing. The conies that escape being crushed come out peeved and protesting against unnecessary disturbances.
One day while crossing the heights there came a roaring and a crashing on the side of a peak that rose a thousand feet above the level of the plateau. A cloud of rock dust rose and filled the air completely for several minutes. As the echoes died away there were calls and alarmed cries of conies. Hastening to the bottom of a slope of slide rock I found scattered fragments of freshly broken rocks. A mass had fallen near the top of the peak and this had crashed down upon the long slope of slide rock, tearing and scattering the surface and causing the entire slope of a thousand feet or more to settle. I could hear a subdued creaking, groaning, and grinding together, with a slight tumble of a fragment on surface.
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