I do not know why I looked back after I had passed, but as I did so, I saw the girl, for she was little more, pull a scrap of chamois from a little bag she carried and quickly rub rouge upon her hollow cheeks, using the saloon mirror for a toilet glass.

They suffer more than the chamois after a heavy snowfall because they are not so strong and cannot scamper through it.

On Muottas Celerina this winter we saw four chamois below us in the wood.

When frightened, they will take their spring, and, like a chamois of the Alps, plant themselves upon the very spot upon which they designed to hold themselves.

I shall never see anything prettier than the play of those young chamois on the snow.

This animal more closely resembles the chamois than any other species found upon this continent, and is almost as difficult to capture.

The ranges of these two mountaineers are pretty distinct, and they see but little of each other; the sheep being restricted mostly to the dry, inland mountains; the goat or chamois to the wet, snowy glacier-laden mountains of the northwest coast of the continent in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.

A friend of the guide, whom he had picked up to profit by my coming, took one side of the valley, and I the other, while a boy with an umbrella went down the valley to drive the chamois up to us.

Finally she rubbed the pink chamois across her features and adjusted her hat, pausing to scrape again with forefinger at the front of her, and moved on through the gloom, the wind blowing her skirt forward.

An elderly Emperor's fancy might lean To idling, or hunting the chamois with WALES.