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a'-e they to moving, that they will break branches 

 as large as a man's thigh sooner than shift to 

 another place where food is plentiful. The hunter 

 ascertains whether the moose has been recently in 

 its "yard" by scraping away the surface of the 

 snow from the trees already stripped, and if they 

 have been barked bcloiv the snow the animal has 

 left the spot for some time, and its trail is not 

 worth following. 



Mr. Kendall, of the Literary Society of Quebec, 

 speaks thus of the wonderful horns of the moose : 

 " The antlers begin to sprout in April, and at first 

 appear like two black knobs. They complete their 

 growth in July, when the skin \\hich covers them 

 peels off and leaves them perfectly white ; exposure 

 to the sun and air, however, soon renders them 

 brown. When we consider the immense size to 

 which some of them grow in such a short period 

 of time, it seems almost incredible that two such 

 enormous excresences could be deposited from 

 the circulating system alone ; the daily growth 

 is distinctly marked on the velvety covering by a 

 light shade carried around them. The first year 

 the antlers are only about one inch long, the 

 second year, four or five inches, with perhaps the 

 rudiment of a point, the third year about nine 

 inches, when each divides into a fork still round in 



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