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of the Alaskan forests seem absolutely lethargic, and 

 lymphatic. Of course, on the constant watchfulness 

 of the antelopes of Africa depend their every hour of 

 life, menaced as they are on every side by beasts of 

 prey. The moose and his kind has little to fear from 

 any enemy save man, and but for the country he 

 chooses to inhabit the stalking of moose would not be 

 a matter of tremendous difficulty. Possibly if they 

 lived in the open they might adopt different methods 

 and modes of precaution. 



Back to camp after a blank morning, and yet not 

 entirely blank, for the sight of one's first moose is a 

 Red Letter day of a kind. Perhaps, too, the head 

 might not have turned out nearly so splendid as it 

 looked to my excited imagination. So I consoled 

 myself and hoped for " Better luck to-morrow." 



In a world of love-making it was perhaps fitting 

 that Ralph should come to me with his amatory con- 

 fidences. He loved Cecily; oh, how much he loved 

 Cecily ! To think of it, that a jungle man, more used 

 to bloodshed than to tenderness, should come to play 

 Romeo ! 



All his trouble no love affair is happy if there's no 

 trouble in it lay in the fact that, being comparatively 

 a poor man, he could not ask a rich woman to marry 

 him. Why not, I wanted to know ? Love should not 

 be confounded with money. 



" Sometimes money confounds love," said Ralph. 

 "What then?" 



The dear fellow propounded a scheme of schemes 

 to me. How would it be if he asked Cecily to make 



