U8 THE MOOSE 



Down wind rang a far-away answer, trembling on 

 the silence. And it came from the farther shore. 



Purposefully the great moose waded deep, deep, 

 and then struck out. Almost at once he realized 

 his impotency. He might plunge with his fore- 

 legs and labour with his shoulders and beat and 

 struggle, but the wound in his haunch had so 

 paralyzed the muscles that their powers had gone. 



His terror was such that it overmastered him 

 physically. He could not draw his breath, it panted 

 from him in deep, slow gasps. The throb of his 

 heart was choking him. 



The water carried him along a few yards, and 

 then his courage and resolve stayed him a moment, 

 until a maelstrom caught him and swirled him into 

 midstream. 



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" The record moose head of the world came from 

 the Kenai district, and was taken by a native from 

 an animal discovered drowned in the river, and 

 caught in some scrub alders overhanging the banks. 

 The span of antlers of this wonderful trophy came 

 out at eighty-one inches, and is now in the 

 possession of a New York club." 



BILI.INO AKD SONS, LTD., PRINTEES, GDILDFOBD 



