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another around the neck and chopped the head 

 clear. 



We dropped it as it was to the shore, and 

 there cut it up in quarters. All of the breast, 

 neck and front legs Avere quite useless, being a 

 mass of conjected blood and bruised flesh, 

 caused by the moose's contact with the ice. 

 These condemned parts, however, were not al- 

 together useless, because I used them to bait 

 my traps. Besides the eatable part of the meat, 

 I got twenty pairs of shoes out of the hide. 



Just after the above account of the very un- 

 usual occurrence was received, a press dispatch 

 telling of a somewhat similar happening ap- 

 peared in the New York newspapers. There is 

 no doubt that accidents of one sort and another 

 are responsible for the death of large game much 

 more frequently than we imagine. It is certain 

 also that among the young of such animals there 

 is a considerable mortality, although we do not 

 know that any observations on this subject have 

 been recorded. Every man who has hunted 

 much, however, has probably seen something of 

 this, and we should be glad to record any such 

 experiences of this sort which our readers have 

 had. We ourselves have not infrequently found 

 young deer and antelope that had evidently died 



