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the body, almost touching the heart, and that one ball 
of the smooth bore had gone through the neck, while 
another had broken one of the hind legs. 
“The day I killed my other moose (and indeed, had I 
been fortunate, might have secured two right and left) 
I had a great chance of a bear. - One does not put the 
cap on the nipple until the moose is supposed to be 
near. Whilst we were looking for tracks a bear crossed 
us, and sat down to look at us, within fifty yards of me. 
But of course, whilst I was fumbling in my waistcoat 
pocket for a cap he was off. 
“One night a bear came and prowled round my 
‘camp’ for a long time, attracted, no doubt, by the 
smell of my pork. Unluckily it was a pitch-dark night, 
and I could not see him; so at last, getting tired of 
listening to him, I rolled myself up in my blanket 
again and went to sleep. 7 
“ For moose-hunting in Nova Scotia you must ‘ go.in 
for it’ in a much more business-like way than the 
Norwegians do. There is no use trying it unless you 
recularly take to the woods for a fortnight or so, and it 
is pretty hard work, for you have to carry everything 
you want for the expedition on your back, sharing the 
labour of this equally with the Indians. Your ‘ wmpe- 
dimenta’ consist of a camp (under which high-sounding 
title is signified a piece of oiled calico about six feet long 
by five feet wide, intended to be tied in a slanting 
