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what the better of this unique tug of war, and 

 when Dyche reached the spot Brown was up to his 

 waist in water and going deeper. Getting hold of 

 the other ear, Dyche assisted Brown in landing the 

 prize, which soon died of its wounds. 



These incidents occurred in a very short space of 

 time, yet to Dyche it seemed that he had accom- 

 plished the object of a lifetime. What a bull this 

 was ! A leader in every sense of the word and just 

 the one to head the group which Dyche had in 

 contemplation. The horns and the grand proportions 

 of the body exceeded even the wildest dreams of the 

 naturalist, and he almost feared that he would wake 

 and find the whole episode a dream. He had seen 

 many sets of horns, but never before horns like these. 



The measurements were taken and the specimens 

 dressed so that they would not be disturbed until 

 they could be taken to the home camp. From the 

 top of the back to the point of the hoof the big moose 

 measured, just as he lay, eighty-five and a half inches ; 

 from the top of the back to the bottom of the hoof, 

 eighty-one and a half inches. The standing height of 

 the animal, after all corrections were made, was just 

 seventy-eight and a half inches. This was equal to a 

 horse nineteen and a half hands high, and above this 

 towered the massive head with its wide-branching 

 horns. The skin weighed one hundred and thirty- 

 five pounds after it had dried one day in the open air. 

 The heart was twenty-two inches in circumference at 

 the base and ten and a half inches in length, weigh- 

 ing, when free from all blood and arteries, six and a 

 half pounds. 



