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echoes were sobered into silence, we saw a pair of 

 deer two hundred yards away. My guide suggested 

 that I try a shot at them, saying it would be a good 

 idea, even if I missed the deer, for it would let the 

 goose know that there was a canoe on the pond, that 

 the pond was mortgaged and he had better find some 

 other spot for his cannonading. The deer, however, 

 were in an awkward place to be shot at with effect. 

 However, I did shoot and missed. They wheeled like 

 a flash and bounded into the woods. The sound of 

 the shot reached the goose with the 50-100 rifle who 

 stepped out into the open, saw us, and started back 

 for his camp. 



We now paddled to the other side of the pond and 

 as the sun was coming out warm we left our coats and 

 vests in the canoe, took with us a tin cup and four 

 bouillon capsules and left, feeling sure that the goose's 

 cannonading had killed all our chances of seeing any 

 more game that day. We left the canoe exactly at 

 eight o'clock (I know, for I looked at my watch on 

 starting). Not more than five minutes later my foot 

 stumbled in the bog. Kecovering my foothold and 

 looking up I saw a sight that startled me. Not a 

 hundred yards away a great bull-moose, with wide- 

 spreading antlers and dilated nostrils stood looking 

 straight at me from between two trees. The place 

 where he was standing was one where a man would 

 least expect to see him, because, by all rules of pru- 



