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CHAPTER XII. 



The Bear which was not killed — Following the Moose — The Captain 

 KILLED the Bull Moose — Packing out of the Woods — The Rest at 

 Harkness's Shack — A Hard Tramp — Burk's Falls— A Deer-Hunt — An- 

 other Trip to Canada in the Company of my Son, a Lad of Fifteen — 

 Teaching the Boy to Shoot — Killed his First Deer— An Exciting 

 Chase — The Old Doe makes her Escape. 



J^-sS^^?^^-^ reader left us busied in our miserable 

 cabin with our morning meal, which having 

 been completed, we started off for the old 

 bear's food-supply. This point was distant 

 from the cabin something less than a mile, 

 and was, therefore, reached within half an 

 hour after the start was made. We found 

 that the dead moose had not been visited by old 

 bruin since the heavy snow-fall ; although a flock 

 of ravens had uncovered the carcass and were engaged in 

 picking the flesh from his bones at the moment of our 

 arrival. The prospect of meeting the game which we 

 sought, it must be confessed, was now very discouraging ; 

 but, nevertheless, I was determined to remain on the watch 

 here for the present. The captain cut out some of the 

 underbrush in order that I miorht be better enabled to 

 discover the approach of the much-desired visitor, and 

 then left me, saying, *' I will go off in search of other 

 game." I remained on this lonely bear-watch about five 



