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length. George pronounced this moose to be 

 an old bull past his prime, but his horns were 

 quite worth having as they measured just 

 fifty inches in greatest spread and were well 

 palmated with eighteen points. He had 

 evidently been fighting desperately quite 

 lately for the possession of the cow he had 

 attached himself to, as his head and neck had 

 been much bruised, no doubt by blows from 

 the horns of a rival. 



I spent the following day in cleaning and 

 preserving the headskin of my second moose, 

 and, as my license only entitled me to shoot 

 two of these animals — only one may now be 

 shot — I started on October 11th for a place 

 called Snake Lake, not far from Mattawa, where 

 George thought I might get a white-tailed deer. 



After several days still hunting, during 

 which I saw several does and fawns, but never 

 a buck, I at last got a shot at and killed a four- 

 year old stag with a pretty, though not, of 

 course, a very large, pair of horns. 



On the following day, October 20th, the 

 weather was very fine without a breath of wind, 



