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bullet struck, it lurched over sideways and 

 fell flat on the ground stone dead. 



It was indeed a splendid creature. I made 

 its standing height at the shoulder six feet 

 eleven inches, taking the measurement as 

 carefully as possible with a steel tape. Its 

 magnificent antlers measured five feet seven 

 inches in a straight line right across the 

 palms, with no long straggling points, and 

 were extraordinarily massive and heavy. On 

 the left hand antler there were twenty-three 

 points, and on the right eighteen, or forty- 

 one points in all. 



Altogether, it seemed to me that I had at 

 last obtained a trophy worth a king's ransom, 

 a trophy which would have well repaid a 

 journey to the very end of the earth to get. 

 AVhen weighed at Selkirk on the Yukon in 

 the following October, the horns and skull of 

 this moose turned the scale at seventy-five 

 pounds. 



I am quite aware that a number of moose 

 heads of considerably larger dimensions than 

 those I have just recorded have been obtained 



