238 FRANK FORKSTER's FIELD SPOUTS. 



down, when once alarmed and in motion. He must, therefore, 

 t'ithrr he stalked silently from the leeward, or shot while in his 

 " yard." 



His flesh is said to be inferior to that of the Moose, which is 

 to beef as venison to mutton. 



To those who are wholly inexpert with the rifle, and hopeless 

 of asin<i: it effectively, a good douldc gun of fourteen, or — bet- 

 ter — twelve guage, heavily loaded witli powder, and with an 

 Eley's wire caitridge, green, of SSCt mould shot, will prove a 

 deadly implement. 



At seventy to a hundred yards, it will throw fourteen largo 

 huck-sh.ot into a circle of a foot diameter ; and, if compelled — 

 which the Lord forbid ! — to fight a Grizzly Bear at close quar- 

 ters, I v.ould rather use such a gun so loaded, than any firearm 

 known. At ten paces it will make a ragged wound, as big as 

 the mouth of a tumbler, and send its shot through and through. 



