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going to stop right here under cover, and Jesse shall have the sport of watching your hunt through the field-glasses--almost as good fun as going along himself. Go on now, and don't lose any time." The two older boys now advanced carefully up the slope, using the cover of the trees as far as they could. They appeared in the open for a little time, only to disappear beyond a series of rocks which projected from the slope above them. "I don't see where they've gone," said Jesse, who was steadily watching through the glasses. "Give them time," said Uncle Dick. "You must remember that Rob has to get pretty close in order to make the photograph. I'm sure they're within rifle-range now." "Oh, there they are!" whispered Jesse, a little later. "I see them now. They're up above the goats, and crawling right down toward them. Now there's old Rob, he's trying to get to the edge of the rocks; I can see he's got his camera all ready. He'll be on top of them, almost, if he gets there." "Good boy, Rob!" said Uncle Dick, approvingly. "He has made a good stalk of it." Jesse, still gazing through the glasses, now saw his two friends slowly advancing, clinging like flies to the steep rock's face, but all the time getting closer to their game. The goats seemed not to suspect an enemy, but lay or stood about in perfect unconcern. They did not have any sentinel posted, as the mountain sheep often will, but seemed to feel perfectly secure from all intrusion. [Illustration: ROB'S GOAT] At last Jesse saw Rob stand up straight and walk forward rapidly with his camera in front of him. The goats now heard or scented him, for at once they all stood up and turned toward him, facing him silent and motionless. "They don't know what he is!" exclaimed Jesse. "They're just looking at him. No, there goes a big one right up toward him." "In that case," said Uncle Dick, "Rob will get his picture, sure." An easy prophecy, for, as a matter of fact, Rob secured several very good pictures of the old goat and the others, as he stood rapidly working his camera, almost in the face of the fearless old billy which advanced toward him so pugnaciously. But now Jesse saw the band of goats apparently take alarm at something. They turned and began to disperse, some of them climbing slowly up the apparently perpendicular rock face. "They'll run right into John!" exclaimed Jesse. "There he is--there, he's shot! Got him, too!" They heard the
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