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a Gun 



abroad in the still night, nor what business 

 or pleasure occupied them. 



Formerly caribou might be found on these 

 same waterways, and they are the most curi- 

 ous and interesting game that can be hunted 

 without a gun; but years ago a grub de- 

 stroyed all the larches on which the wander- 

 ing woodland caribou depend largely for food. 

 The deer, which are already as many as the 

 country can support in winter, take care of 

 the rest of the good browse, so that there 

 was nothing left for the caribou but to cross 

 A over the line into New Brunswick, where 

 larches are plenty and where there is an 

 abundance of the barren 

 moss that can be dug up out 

 of the snow. Better still, if 

 one is after caribou, is the 

 great wilderness of northern 

 Newfoundland, 



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where the caribou 

 spend the summer 

 and where from a 

 mountain top one 

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