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 There have been many cases known where a kid has been wounded or shot dead and the mother chamois has refused to leave it.

Swiss hotel keepers make a great fuss about the chamois till one would think that the great bands roamed around the neighborhood. As a matter of fact one hotel we know of, had a poor, miserable looking little chamois locked up in the stable, which was shown to wondering tourists on the payment of a fee.

The chamois' praises have been sung all over Europe for many years and artists have drawn the animal in every possible way, and thereby given it quite a reputation. In the countries that have bought their freedom so dearly, it has always been a emblem,—and a good one too—of "Liberty."

There is a splendid member of the goat family found in our country, which might well be called the "American chamois." On the islands off the Pacific Coast a good goat shooting can be obtained, but it is best where tourists in number and where the shooting is not advertised in the papers.

One one occasion two hunters, young in years, but old in experience,