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ment. These mancBuvres were intended to imitate the 

 motions of the impatient cow and were expressly for 

 the bulPs information, telling him that his lady-love, 

 whose voice he had heard and for whose embraces he 

 was longing, was now feeding in the water on lily- 

 pads and almost under the nose of his inajesty. But 

 his majesty was cautious. He was most eager, of 

 course, to meet his inamorata and have an embrace 

 or two, but he was not disposed to let his eagerness 

 get the better of his prudence. He evidently scented 

 treachery in the air and was so shy that all the guide's 

 ingenuity failed to coax him to come from out the 

 alders and show himself. Though we could catch no 

 glimpse of him, doubtless he had all the glimpses he 

 wanted of us, and pipe as we might he was in no 

 humor to dance to our music. So we left him, re- 

 turned to camp and turned in, with our brain-pan 

 brimming with visions of a bull-moose with an ounce 

 of lead in his vitals. 



The morning of the third day found us dressed and 

 in the canoe. It was then three o'clock and as dark 

 as Cimmerian pitch. A swift paddle to the head of 

 the lake, then a silent push up the stream and our 

 calling spot was reached. We gave our first call at 

 four o'clock and then waited fifteen minutes for an 

 answer which didn't come. Then we gave another 

 series of calls and again waited. The guide now 

 leaned towards me and whispered : " Listen ! is that a 



