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me, but the savage glare in its eyes left me 

 no doubt as to its intentions. Only in a 

 single instance have I ever known of a 

 hunter being regularly charged by one of 

 these great deer. He had struck a band of 

 elk and wounded an old bull, which, after 

 going a couple of miles, received another 

 ball and then separated from the rest of the 

 herd and took refuge in a dense patch of 

 small timber. The hunter went in on its 

 trail and came upon it lying down; it 

 jumped to its feet and, with hair all brist- 

 ling, made a regular charge upon its pur- 

 suer, who leaped out of the way behind a 

 tree just in time to avoid it. It crashed past 

 through the undergrowth without turning, 

 and he killed it with a third and last shot. 

 But this was a very exceptional case, and in 

 most instances the elk submits to death with 

 hardly an effort at resistance; it is by no 

 means as dangerous an antagonist as is a 



bull moose. 







The elk is unfortunately one of those 

 animals seemingly doomed to total destruc- 



