Hunting in Many Lands 



About this time Phillips, who had been at- 

 tracted by the shooting, appeared in the dis- 

 tance, and I hailed him by a shot, when he 

 came to me. We then carefully covered up 

 the moose with snow and pulled out for camp. 

 When we arrived there and told our story, a 

 more disconsolate looking Indian you could 

 not have found in the whole region, and he 

 doubtless came to the conclusion that his 

 sweeping assertion as to the inability of a 

 white man to kill a moose in that country 

 was perhaps a little too broad. 



Our luck seemed to turn from this time and 

 we got several very good moose, but unfortu- 

 nately no other large heads. After telling this 

 story I do not wish to go upon record as a 

 game slaughterer, for those who know any- 

 thing of my hunting know that I am strongly 

 opposed to anything of the kind. We usually 

 have killed only enough game for meat in 

 camp, but at this time we had to feed beside 

 ourselves ten dogs. Moreover, I have never 

 thought that the killing of bulls made very 

 much difference in the amount of the game, 

 although in shooting them we have usually 

 made it a rule to kill only such heads as we 

 wished to take home. I should add, moreover, 



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