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"firing, I must have the one I fired at, the one with the horns," 

 as I spoke the herd appeared crossing the open 200 yards off. 

 As soon as the horned one came in sight I fired and dropped 

 him, the rest of the herd galloping off. 



When you drop one out of a herd of cariboo like that, the 

 rest after galloping for 1,000 yards or so, almost invariably stop 

 in a bunch for a moment and look back for the lost one. I was 

 too " blown " to run more, so I shoved another cartridge in my 

 rifle, gave it to Peter saying " run and shoot " while I went to 

 " bleed " the fallen cai'iboo, for I have known one dropped like 

 that to get up, (while you run on after the others) and be no 

 more seen. 



As I was giving the conpde grace I heard — bang— bang ; and 

 ran on to Peter — " I hit two " he said " come on and you'll get 

 another chance." We started again I loaded as I ran and 

 caught sight of them and again they stopped to look back. I 

 fired both barrels, killed two and wounded one. We again pur- 

 sued, I got another chance and killed another ; the fifth, the last 

 was badly hit, and limped about some distance off while we were 

 cleaning those killed. To my regret I found I had not another 

 cartridge to put him out of misery, but he must have been badly 

 wounded for we found him frozen dead next morning. So we 

 got the whole herd, five of them. 



There is this advantage in winter hunting, your game keeps 

 good for any time, and there is no extra charge for freezing it 

 when the thermometer is 20° to 30° below zero ! You bleed and 

 clean your cariboo or moose ; and then fix or stake it out to 

 freeze in a shape which will be easily lashed on a taboggan — 

 drawing the head out straight to the front ; doubling the fore 

 legs close up to the body and pinning or staking them there ; 

 and stretching and pinning the hind legs straight out behind, so 

 that they will drag or trail behind your taboggan. You leave 

 him so, being careful to mark the place and putting up a piece of 

 rag or something to scare foxes or wolves over the carcase, and a 

 day or two before the end of your trip, you go out and haul in 

 the several carcases to the nearest spot where you can get a team 

 and sleigh in. On the occasion which I have mentioned after 

 cleaning and '• fixing " the four cariboo (which were killed 8 or 

 10 miles from our camp) we returned to camp picking up our 

 snow shoes, the taboggan and the solitary cariboo killed three 

 weeks before on our way. Our sleigh from home was to come out 

 the next day but one, and so we had to get these five cariboo 

 hauled out to the nearest lumber road in one day. To make 

 matters worse it snowed very heavily all night, and next morning 

 there was some two to three feet deep of new snow on the ground. 

 Peter the boy, and I started at daylight with the two empty 



