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storm. One such night I well remember last fall. 

 It rained, and thundered, and blew the whole 

 time from about eight o'clock, until daylight at 

 last gave us a chance of dragging our chilled and 

 benumbed bodies back to camp. Fortunately- 

 such exposure, though unpleasant, never does one 

 any harm in the wilderness. 



Occasionally a moose will answer, but nothing 

 will induce him to come up, and in the morn- 

 ing, if there is a little wind, you can resort to the 

 only other legitimate way of hunting the moose, 

 namely, " creeping," or " still hunting," as it 

 would be termed in the States, which is as nearly 

 as possible equivalent to ordinary deerstalking. 



After the rutting season the moose begin to 

 " yard," as it is termed. I have seen pictures of 

 a moose-yard in which numbers of animals are 

 represented inside and surrounded by a barrier 

 of snow, on the outside of which baffled packs of 

 wolves are clamorously howling ; and I have seen 

 a moose-yard so described in print as to make it 

 appear that a number of moose herd together 

 and keep tramping and tramping in the snow to 

 such an extent that by mid-winter they find 

 themselves in what is literally a yard — a hollow 

 bare place, surrounded by deep snow. Of course 



