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Indian wanders aimlessly about the woods without 

 any particular object. When you come to under- 

 stand the motive for every twist and turn he 

 makes, and appreciate the science he is displaying, 

 it becomes one of the most fascinating pursuits 

 in which the sportsman can indulge. 



Sometimes one may be in good luck and come 

 across a moose in some glade or " interval," the 

 result of the labours of former generations of 

 beavers. An " interval " is the local term for 

 natural meadows, which are frequently found 

 along the margins of streams. Beavers have done 

 great and useful work in all these countries. The 

 evidences of their labours have far outlived the 

 work of aboriginal man. They dam up little 

 streams and form shallow lakes and ponds. Trees 

 fall in and decay ; the ponds get choked with 

 vegetation, fill up, and are turned into natural 

 meadows of great value to the settler. Beavers 

 have played an important part in rendering these 

 savage countries fit for the habitation of civilised 

 man. 



The moose may also be run dovm in winter 

 time on snow-shoes. This may be called partly 

 a legitimate, and partly an illegitimate, mode of 

 killing the animal. If the snow is not very deep, 



