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has resulted in the surpassing size of the Kenai 

 heads. 



Moose wa was moving daily farther and farther 

 into a region of mammoths. An alien from the 

 Alaskan Peninsula, he ought to have been afraid ; 

 but he feared nothing but the occasional evidence 

 of the near presence of man, particularly above the 

 indent of Turnagain Bay. 



He sought the great lakes, and went forward 

 tirelessly. 



The rain fell ceaselessly. Since leaving his own 

 portion of Alaska a fortnight ago, the moose had 

 not known one day without its downpour. He 

 was used to water, was accustomed to browse 

 *' between whiles," until he found that there weren't 

 any in the Kenai — a place of no half-measures. 



If there was much game afoot, he did not know 

 it, so close did the forest-dwellers lie up. And all 

 traces of their passings to and fro was wiped out by 

 the floods of water as a sponge cleans a slate. 



He was glad when the frost at night dried things 

 up a bit, and a light snow — first of the winter — 

 fell. 



Coming to a belt of heavy timber, with a thickly 

 growing underbrush, near the great lakes, typical 



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