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Excerpt from Museum Stories for Children, Vol. 7: October-November, 1927 Perhaps you wonder what these creatures find to eat so high on the mountains. Much of their food consists of various kinds of moss which grow in patches among the rocks. Sometimes they eat buds and twigs of small mountain shrubs; and once in a while they come down into the forests and mountain valleys to nibble at leaves and grass. Mountain goats always manage to find enough food to keep themselves strong and fat both in summer and in winter. Wild sheep sometimes live on the same mountain as the goats; but they seldom climb as high nor stay as long in one region. Mountain sheep are often seen in ocks; and one of them sometimes stands alone on top of a rock, like a sentinel on guard. If it sees you, it may warn the others and the whole ock will bound away and disappear like magic behind the rocks. Their long slender legs carry the heavy bodies with great speed. Some mountain sheep are white; but most of them have coats so near the color of the rocks that it is hard to see the animals unless they are moving. Their hair is thick and warm, yet not at all shaggy. Sometimes in summer it becomes stained reddish-brown from the earth. The tail of a wild sheep is so short that it seems to have none at all. Every wild sheep has horns; and those of some mountain sheep are so large that the animal is called Bighorn. The horns of full-grown rams describe almost a circle; but those of ewes and lambs are short and slightly curving. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in o