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burned. The older and weaker ones of the family died from 

 the intense cold. 



About four miles south of Lake Manitoba I came across a 

 blutF where moose sign was plentiful. How I longed to see a 

 wild specimen of this the greatest of Canadian deer, but in 

 this I was disappointed. This large animal frequents the 

 shores of Lake Manitoba, and a couple of Toronto gentlemen 

 caught a very young moose liere last season and released it 

 again after it had been admired. Another party who spent a 

 week shooting in the neighborhood, last fall, shot eight deer, 

 two bears, a lynx, and a great bag of grouse, and one gentle- 

 man of the party, who had never seen a live moose before in 

 his life, killed two of these animals in one day. The moose 

 offers splendid sport to the still-hunter, and the Indians and 

 half-breeds are experts at still-hunting. When they perceive 

 a moose bathing on ihe side of a lake they crawl along the 

 ground until within range and then seldom fail to drop him 

 on the spot : great care, however, has to be taken, for the 

 crackinc" of a twio- is sufficient to alarm the animal. 



STILL HUNTING. 



