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the valley, so I kept on in the same direction, 

 but in a disconsolate mood, for it seemed the 

 very irony of fate that this snowstorm should 

 have come on at so inconvenient a time, 



I had walked close down to the creek, and 

 had but small expectations of ever coming up 

 with the wounded animal again, when, to my 

 amazement, I saw it within two hundred yards 

 of me, on the hillside beyond. The snow flurry 

 had now ahnost ceased as suddenly as it had 

 conmienced, and I could see the moose quite 

 plainl}' standing amongst some scattered spruce 

 scrub. If it had gone only a few yards further 

 it would have got amongst some thickly growing 

 trees, and I should then almost certainly have 

 lost it. It must have seen me coming on 

 towards the creek, but was probably too severely 

 wounded to move, and another bi.illet behind 

 the shoulder killed it at once. 



It looked a very fine dark coloured animal, 

 and Avas excessively fat. It was much younger 

 j)robably than the first bull I had killed, and 

 had a bell, hanging down like a tail from its 

 throat, quite eighteen inches in length. Louis 



