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from which each radiated. The one who examined the 

 traps to the north to-day, visited those to the south 

 to-morrow, changing their routes with each other daily, 

 and always meeting at night at their common residence. 

 Almost half the season had thus passed away, when one of 

 the companions who had returned to the sleeping place, 

 became seriously alarmed at the continued absence of his 

 friend. At length the little cur dog who constantly 

 accompanied the missing man came home alone. There is 

 an end to everything, and so there is to a long winter 

 night ; and with the earliest indications of day the 

 anxious watcher sallied forth to find the missing trapper, 

 whom he, after a long and weary search, discovered dread- 

 fully mangled and partially eaten. The assassin had been 

 a painter. The tracks on the tell-tale snow spoke 

 correctly. About thirty feet above where the corpse lay, 

 an immense limb ran out at right angles from the parent 

 tire. From this the skulking coward had doubtless sprung 

 upon tho unsuspecting trapper. 



Tims it will be seen that the home of the giant moose is 

 not without other tenants, some of whom are likely to 

 afford adventurous hunters more excitement than a hot 

 corner at the side of an English cover. 



