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OUR
LADIES
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PLEASE
NOTE
On
the
and sides of the steps, of lay huge heaps and drifts on was which the soft chinook snow, its touch the banks Under blowing. does from a houseoften slid as snow
!
.
gulches A GOAT
HUNT
IN
CHINOOK
WEATHER.
By Bisbee mean
F.
ability, at his
months
Calkins.
a
taxidermist
who
had
was
W.
Pierre's secured and
GRIFFITHS BROS, of
been
brother-in-law's where River,
on
mounted
the
no
he
Invite
had
skins of of mountain
COFFEE
TEA,
eight ranch
to
a
varieties elk, three " and cub, a family a silver deer, tip a of mountain lions, doe, big-horn other and several animals of note. bull
where
Retail
(gratis), Parcels
at
Wholesale
a in technical school no ex with previous of mountain Bisbee's work, perience had been notable. It is true success that the half-breed Shoshone Joe, and that was his guide, hunter, Joe but had secured the bear and lions, the elk and Bisbee had himself killed was that His patience of a bighorn. born hunter. In the cover of a sage of a bush chaparral, with the carcase in wait con cow for bait, he had lain
Fresh East,
from
be may Rates.
Pierre's. the white
goat
—
at
But Bisbee
that
if
it
"
cost
a
level
or
:
PERTH.
WILLIAM
MELBOURNE,
AND
ADELAIDE.
"
National Library of Australia
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had
purposely for
and
Durability, RIDE
Comfort,
DUNLOP that
See
you
PNEUMATIC KING
PERTH
STREET,
see
the
was
&
PREMIER
CASH
314 Most
and
COFFEES
Families
are
Waited
Address
Note
(Wholesale
ST.
EAST,
well
and
for
on
favourably
Retail)
GENERAL
GROCERIES,
the
Our
Prompt
ST.
TABLE Brands
Famous
Careful
and
New
Masonic
EAST,
PERTH.
Free
Alfred 17
Clarke,
M'Ness's
JOHN
MURRAY
CHINA,
GLASS,
GLASS
FLOWER
Hall,
for
a
Latest
Novelties
REGULAR INCOMING
SILBERT HAY N.B.
—
SHARP, PERTH,
trade
liberally
See.
BEST
Wholesale and dealt
H ANN
with
AN
his
of
a slide long below. when he reached rim of the table scene confronted
slump
from
ears
slide."
"
rim
licked
was
of
At
his
QUALITY
Prices;
BY
ALL
steeps,
wound then
ONLY..
Retail
ST..
KALGOORLTE.
along
the
with
accumulated
out furiously of the notch. out
over
fierce
upon
The
these huge and volleys
tremendous
Fruiterers, ' I
—'-il
I
his
impregnable he scanned the
can
forts.
opposing
a number upon of white objects a distant back upon and rock. To get ground of earth out snow which of the haze of falling those dimmed somewhat, he objects
JUGS
our
and
left,
heights, progress.
of
watching
nonading Then, as
BOHEMIAN WATER-
FRU-ITS;
it
and
banks in spurts, shoots, not unlike the incessant puffs of bat a smoke. For in time, fact, tery himself Bisbee with the pleased
SHARP, OF
and
from
See
soft
and
rough
fancy
AND
Sc
STEAMERS.
& ST., The
T
CONSIGNMENTS
chinook,
fresh
snow
Co.,
FANCY
Decorations,
ER
SILB
"
Table
in
genuine
was in blizzard The wind, filled whirled snowdust, the embankments
STREET.
EARTHENWARE, VASES STANDS,
blowing
Below him lay a yawning semicircular the notch, piled along and with hillocks drifts. heights Across this chasm to the eastward a scarred summit of the towered and mountain, showing huge drifts here with sun-touched nobs, bald, and there the long, smooth path of
spectacle
&
DYNON
86
so
wind
him.
Perth.
Arcade,
thickly
flying
It was about noon southern sheltered land. Here a wild
of
Delivery.
Sight-Testing
opticiand
Royal
snow
glittering
the
to
the
Mr.
mountains
of
outlined,
a
PRICES-
level,
was
rumble came
in
Orders:
posi
the
the snow pelting of his white eye-slits through melted like rain his upon headgear the face. Now and then as he skirted some the bank of yawning gulf,
known.
Opposite
HAY
and
of
LOWEST
could
the
PERTH, City.
a
across
plateau,
penetrating,
IMPORTERS,
Complete and Best Assorted Stock PRODUCE FARM. and DAIRY
DELICACIES, TEAS
HAY
—
the
Hold
GALLAGHER,
GROCERS and
He
nothing the tumble
Though on
HUGHES
this
Hardy
game.
distance.
some
although below lay clearly in the sunshine.
Ltd.
CO.,
the
of finding
tively
TYRE
chosen
his final attempt but he almost re
was
for
of
Beware
Imitations.
Spurious
DUNLOP
Speed,
and
DUNLOPS,
swept
be were, he scarcely goats would come the lieved they upon in such weather. table-land he his fol After wind, getting lowed along the edge of the plateau the southern and towards slopes, the blizzard blundered on, buffetting and steering clear of the lower drifts
TYRES.
Genuine
get
goat, the first
on
chance the as
CYCLISTS! For
though
as
weather
mountain
snow
i
"
and trees, broom.
The plateau. across the top blizzarding he stopped to rest when his legs and level his on surface. lungs fairly storm This mountain might spoil his
at
SYDNEY,
the
iron
pented
'
and ridges. He had long, hard and dangerous to reach the top of the first climbing there had been very for plateau, and a chinook heavy snowfalls was the north wind from blowing to In order make progress at west. all to to he was stick the compelled bare of and summits hogbacks On either hand the moun ridges. was slashed with cavernous tain and but for minute gulches, Joe's he could never have founddirections bis way to the top.
an
at
FREMANTLE.
.
was on the the It of evening of that twenty-second February Bisbee left Shoshone the Joe and at the in camp burros western timber towards and started the sumlimits, mit of the great, irregular mountain, hoping to find his white goats some where the bare cones upper along
rock
with
perilous
STREET, And
In October, with a and with
-
loose
:
guide,
r
"
bottom
the of plateau. reaching of On such a day, after heavy falls or occur slides small snow, great on the sides of a big minute every shoots mountain. Some are of tiny in a few tons' dissipated weight, are lodgment along the steeps, others and the avalanches force, gathering in their of fresh drifts flight, weight a as free from and paih ploughing
Depot,
STREET,
swift
long,
of the gulch the Bisbee heard dull before of seven big slides
canyon.
slump
in
plunged the
to
Bisbee
leg."
Shoshone Joe for of burros couple to carry his baggage, Bisbee, seeking the white threaded the summits goat, as far north of the Tenton Mountains, as the In vain he National Park. and Joe had scaled dizzy heights and toiled for two weeks. unweariedly they found fresh signs of Although here at the animals and there great in elevations, they left the mountain once without disgust getting sight brutes. of the wary At last, towards Bisbee spring, crea determined to seek the strange ture the of its highest heights, among the greatest of the and amid depths end he winter snows. To that fashioned a suit of white complete for feet, canvas, with covering hands, and a of the head, and gun-cover same he went to material. Thus the dressed as Grand Tenton a wraith of the snow.
"
obtained
Depot
Warehouse
for
longed
he said,
143 MURRAY
what
was
all. above Cer there were white goats tainly among but Ten tons, the they had, so far, He eluded his pursuit. would have
one,
Retail
TEA
of
CUP
a
Perth
and
for thirty-six hours, in hope tinuously at to get a shot the immense graywhite buffalo wolf. He had observed so before shooting that the carefully of his mounted pose and savage grin the admiration of the specimen were men
ancl
Office
their
at
"
the
of
PARTAKE
and
CALL CHOCOLATE you
or
MERCHANTS,
& COCOA
and
roof, shoots
eyes
farther saw
plainly
fell
along
the
outlined, distant,
slope, not
and five
a dozen or hundred yards more white goats. about or There were, lying they in the sunlight, standing very much
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