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unique that I think it will prove interesting to 

 the readers of Forest and Stream. 



I was at the time stationed right in the 

 moose country, having for its center the great 

 Kipewa Lake. One day toward the end of No- 

 vember, when, as yet only the bays of the big 

 lake were frozen, I started to visit some mink 

 traps in my canoe, accompanied by a small little 

 rat of a dog. It was still open water in the 

 body of the lake, but as I have said, the bays 

 were frozen a couple of inches thick. There is 

 a long point of land jutting into the* lake. Open 

 water washed the beach on my side of this ; but 

 on the other side was a frozen bay. I landed 

 about the middle of the point to fix up a mink 

 trap. The little dog ran up into the timber, and 

 a minute or two after I heard him giving tongue 

 in a savage manner for so small a beast, and I 

 knew he must have started up something extra- 

 ordinary, possibly a bear. I ran down to the ca- 

 noe for my gun, and started off in the direction 

 of the barking, which by that time was becom- 

 ing more remote. Pushing on, I came out to the 

 shore on the opposite side of the point. Here I 

 witnessed a sight never before nor after seen by 

 me during a residence of over thirty years in 

 the wilds of Canada. 



A large cow moose was slipping about on 

 the glare ice trying to make her way to the other 



