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sian wolfhound. One day they came across a white 

 goat, and before the slow creature could reach the prec 

 ipice the dogs overtook and bayed it. The track-hound 

 merely jumped to and fro, baying; but the wolfhound 

 rushed straight in and caught the goat by the neck on 

 one side; whereupon the track-hound seized the other 

 side of the neck. Immediately, with two wicked back 

 ward thrusts of its horns, first to one side, then to the 

 other, the goat killed both its assailants; the stiletto-like 

 horns were driven to the hilt with a single jab. 



The attack by the moose upon us, mentioned in the 

 final chapter, was so unusual that I give the deposi 

 tion of the two guides who were with me, and also the 

 report of the senior of the two, the game warden, in 

 reference to the occurrence. They are as follows: 



CANADA 



PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, 

 DISTRICT OF QUEBEC, 



I, Theodore Roosevelt, residing at Oyster-Bay in the 

 United States of America, do solemnly declare as follows : 



That I have just returned from a trip in the Tourilli 

 Club limits as a Guest of Dr. Alexander Lambert, I had 

 the ordinary game license No. 25 issued to me on the 

 6th day of September instant. On September the nine 

 teenth, on Lake Croche, having with me as guides, Arthur 

 Lirette and Odilon Genest, I killed an old bull moose as 

 authorized by the license, which only permitted to me 

 to kill one moose. That afternoon, shortly after three 

 o clock, we were returning in our canoe to the West end 

 of the Lake, where a portage trail led to our camp; a 

 small stream runs besides the portage trail; when half 

 a mile from our proposed landing place, we saw an old 

 bull moose on the shore. We paddled up to within a 



