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Although the party was entitled 

 to four moose under the law, we 

 intended to take but one. Bobbie 

 and Sally had each killed a moose 

 the year before, so again to the guest 

 fell the favour of depriving some 

 majestic creature of his life that his 

 head might bear witness of his glory 

 long after his allotted time had 

 passed. 



I accepted the office of gun bearer 

 because Bobbie would have felt a 

 mooseless trip to be lacking a neces- 

 sary savour and there was a cer- 

 tain wall space in an Eastern country 

 home that had long proclaimed itself 

 an appropriate setting for a "big 

 head." Therefore if fate offered a 

 sufficiently large one I was to play 

 Diana. 



In order to assist fate as much as 

 possible, daily we hunted and almost 

 daily saw big game. Twice had Nim- 

 rod vindicated the hoodoo horn by 

 calling out a bull moose on gallant 

 errand bent, and after inspection 

 each had been allowed to retire, 

 disappointed and suspicious, saved 

 by a too modest growth of armament. 



After my second refusal to " shoot 



