It is now an old and long settled region where the frontier lies neither to the east nor to the west, but has escaped to the vicinity of timber line, nearly two miles straight up in the air.
Some of the winter storms are severe, and on one occasion, while living at an altitude of 7,500 feet, I witnessed a storm during which snow fell continuously for nearly two days.
No sooner had the sheep got to this knoll than the old ram started.
When he saw that there was no ram there, he yelled at them, upon which they ran off about 400 yards, and then stood and looked at us.
Only one adult ram was seen, all the others, about thirty, being either ewes or lambs.
Perhaps there may be a young ram or two whose horns have already begun to curve backward, but for the most part they are females and young.
In the fall of 1894 I discovered eleven large ram skulls in one place, and since that time found four more near by.
The ram broke a trail to a knoll, and stopped and looked back, and pretty soon I saw the rest of the sheep coming along.
Last year I learned of a largeram being killed in the Superstition Mountains which was alone when killed.
I was floating down the Missouri River in a mackinaw boat, the sun just topping the high bad land bluffs to the east, when a splendid ram stepped out, upon a point far above the water, and stood there outlined against the sky.
Last summer Mr. Archibald Rogers saw a large ram at the headwaters of Eagle Creek, very close to the Park.
What my informant had seen, of course, was a ewe, or young mountain ram before he had arrived at the age when the horns begin to form their characteristic spiral.
Later when I returned to camp, one of the packers informed me that for an hour or two before a yearling ram had been feeding in the meadow with the pack animals, close to the camp.
Sometimes a ram would see me and stand and look for a long time, and then presently all along the mountain side I would see sheep running as if they were alarmed.
In 1893 an old ram was killed on Black Butte, at the extreme eastern end of the Judith Mountains, near Cone Butte, and it is quite possible that this animal had strayed out of the bad lands on the lower Musselshell, or on the Missouri.
Chicago reported all engineers out; Omaha wired, no trains moving.
Pick up that tie and ram her," he cried, pointing to the door.
He devised a snow-plough which combined in one monster ram about all the good material we had left, and submitted the scheme to Neighbor.
Oman, quoting Mary Carpenter's Last Days in England of the Raja Ram Mohan Roy, p.
Curiously enough the sect has also found a home in Nepal, having been preached there, it is said, by missionary Dhamis in the time of Raja Ram Bahadur Shah of Nepal, about 150 years ago.
But when he had drawn the knife across his son's throat the angel Gabriel substituted a ram and Ishmael was saved, and the festival commemorates this.
On the appointed day all the citizens assembled outside the walls; and while they stood silent the magistrate proceeded three times round the assembly, driving before him three victims--a pig, a ram and a bull.
The fourth guru, Ram Das, founded Amritsar; but it was his successor, Arjun, that first organised his following.
As we have said, or did we say it, it is perhaps as a nature poet that Ram Spudd excels.
As soon as we had seen Ram Spudd's work of this kind, we cried, that is we said to our stenographer, "What a pity that in this republic we have no laureateship.
But we should not wish our readers to think that Ram Spudd is always and only the contemplative poet of the softer aspects of nature.
But even those who know Ram Spudd as the poet of nature or of passion still only know a part of his genius.
Any one knowing Ram Spudd as we do will realize that these questions, especially the last, are practically unanswerable.
But our space does not allow us to present Ram Spudd in what is after all his greatest aspect, that of a profound psychologist, a questioner of the very meaning of life itself.
What we particularly like about Ram Spudd, and we do not say this because we discovered him but because we believe it and must say it, is that he belongs not to one school but to all of them.
In the person of Mr. Ram Spudd, of whose work we give specimens below, we feel that we reveal to our readers a genius of the first order.
The Monarch and Queen of the West were the only boats of the ram fleet that took part in the action.
Admiral Porter ordered Colonel Ellet to go in advance, with a boat of his ram fleet, to remove the obstructions the Rebels had placed in the river, under the guns of the fort.
Ellet, with two boats of the ram fleet, proceeded to explore the river between Memphis and Vicksburg.
At the time of making this expedition, Colonel Ellet learned that the famous ram gun-boat Arkansas was completed, and nearly ready to descend the river.
It had occurred to him that Mr. Ram should have played on his fiddle somewhere in the tale, and Uncle Remus was called on to explain.
Ole Brer Fox bin pickin' up ole Mr. Benjermun Ram chilluns w'en dey git too fur fum home, but look lak he ain't never bin git close ter de ole creetur.
Similarly among the early Christians, it is said, a ram or lamb was sacrificed in the Paschal mystery.
That is, "By the slaughter of the bull and the slaughter of the ram born again into eternity.
In the catacombs we see the Saviour as a beardless youth, like a young Greek god; sometimes represented, like Hermes the guardian of the flocks, bearing a ram or lamb round his neck; sometimes as Orpheus tuning his lute among the wild animals.
He rose and staggered towards the choir, followed by la Badía, who pierced him through the arm, while Mateo Ram was also said to have thrust him through the body.
The names of Caballería, Sánchez, Santangel, Ram and others occur with wearying repetition in the lists of the autos de fe.
So she took an old ram and killed him, and put him in a cauldron with magic herbs; and whispered her spells over him, and he leapt out again a young lamb.
One ram he took, and fastened a man beneath it, and two others he set, one on either side.
And all, with one consent, gave him for his share the great ram which had carried him out of the cave, and he sacrificed it to Zeus.
The heat of the iron converts it into steam, and, as the ram collects and forces the material, it explodes with a loud report, almost like that of a cannon.
Top cylinder busted, ram cracked, and the crown of the furnace fell in.
In the year 1791, there was a farmer of the name of Seth Wright in Massachusetts, who had a flock of sheep, consisting of a ram and, I think, of some twelve or thirteen ewes.
Colonel Humphreys' statements are exceedingly explicit on this point:--"When an Ancon ewe is impregnated by a common ram the increase resembles wholly either the ewe or the ram.
It appears that one Seth Wright, the proprietor of a farm on the banks of the Charles River, in Massachusetts, possessed a flock of fifteen ewes and a ram of the ordinary kind.
The increase of the common ewe impregnated by an Ancon ram follows entirely the one or the other, without blending any of the distinguishing and essential peculiarities of both.
At the head of the stairs she began to sing, for she looked back and saw babu Sita Ram waddling wheezily up-stairs after Ranjoor Singh and the German.
Babu Sita Ram was stirred out of a meditative coma and sent hurrying away, to come back after a little while and wring his hands.
Ranjoor Singh scarcely troubled to look about him, and Sita Ram fell into a doze, in spite of his protestations of fear.
Babu Sita Ram was sent downstairs to get into the waiting carriage and stay there on the lookout.
I have sent Sita Ramalready with a message to the troopers of Ranjoor Singh's squadron.
Or shall I send a maid in search of babu Sita Ram that the game may continue?
Then babu Sita Ram burst in, half running, and holding his great stomach as he always did when in a hurry.
Presently Sita Ramwill come back, when he has helped himself to payment.
Had the Monitor been such a vessel as those of her type produced later in the war the ram would have been sunk then and there; but as it was her shot was not quite heavy enough to pierce the iron walls.
Then the Monitor's guns opened fire, and as the great balls struck the sides of the ram the plates started and her timbers gave.
With the great ram came three light gunboats, all of which took part in the action, harassing the vessels which she assailed; but they were not factors of importance in the fight.
The ram was badly damaged, and there was no help for her save to put back to the port whence she had come.
Her sides and deck were coated with iron, and she was armed with formidable rifle guns, and, most important of all, with a steel ram thrust out under water forward from her bow.
The Congress was the first to open fire; and as her volleys flew, the men on the Cumberland were astounded to see the cannon-shot bound oft the sloping sides of the ram as haildrops bound from a window-pane.
