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wood, or that which a man makes when pulling 

 hard at a refractory clay pipe. You continue call- 

 ing at intervals until you hear an answer, when 

 your tactics depend upon the way in which the 

 animal acts. Great acuteness of the sense of hear- 

 ing is necessary, because the bull will occasion- 

 ally come up without answering at all ; and the 

 first indication of his presence consists of the slight 

 noise he makes in advancing. Sometimes a bull 

 will come up with the most extreme caution ; at 

 others he will come tearing up through the woods, 

 as hard as he can go, making a noise like a steam- 

 engine, and rushing through the forest apparently 

 without the slightest fear. 



On the particular occasion which I am recalling, 

 it was a most lovely evening. It wanted but about 

 half an hour to sundown, and all was perfectly 

 still. There was not the slightest sound of anything 

 moving in the forest except that of the unfrequent 

 flight of a moose-bird close by. And so I sat watch- 

 ing that most glorious transformation scene — the 

 change of day into night ; saw the great sun sink 

 slowly down behind the pine trees ; saw the few 

 clouds that hovered motionless above me blaze 

 into the colour of bright burnished gold ; saw the 

 whole atmosphere become glorious with a soft 



