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aware of the same fact, I concluded that there 

 was something radically wrong in my manner 

 of hunting them, although I employed every 

 method known to me — methods which had 

 been acquired in an experience during which 

 I had killed considerably over one hundred 

 head of big game, throughout the Rockies and 

 the Alleghanies. In short, I was exceedingly 

 painstaking and careful. Notwithstanding all 

 my precautions, however, I remember that I 

 had the satisfaction one night of knowing that 

 I had started during the day eight different 

 moose, each separately, without hearing or 

 seeing a single one of them. This sort of 

 thing lasted for twenty-two consecutive days, 

 or until I finally concluded that, as our Indian 

 seemed to have no trouble in seeing moose, I 

 would follow his tactics. Waiting, therefore, 

 one morning until I was sure that the Indian 

 had left camp, I changed my course so as to 

 intersect his trail, followed this for some dis- 

 tance, and watched carefully his foot-prints, so 

 as to read the record of his hunt. 



Pretty soon it became apparent that he had 

 come across a moose trail. He tried it first 

 with the toe of his moccasin, then with the 

 butt of his gun, and satisfied himself that it 



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