CHAPTER XVII 



THE SHEEP OF MOUNT SHELDON 1905 



THE following morning a white fish and an "inconnu" 

 were taken from the net. The latter I found similar in 

 flavor and almost as good as the former. A salmon en- 

 meshed in the net had torn it so badly that part of it was 

 ruined. Red-backed mice were very abundant, their 

 intersecting trails spreading all over the surface of the 

 woods. I prepared several that had been taken in the 

 traps, and waited until nearly four in the afternoon be- 

 fore we started out in the canoe, hoping to find the cow and 

 calf feeding in the same place in the lake where I had seen 

 them the previous day. 



A strong head-wind was blowing and both of us had 

 to use the paddles, as we went toward the middle of the 

 lake so that I could see, from a distance, around the point 

 where the moose had been feeding. When we were out 

 far enough, I saw both the mother and calf feeding in the 

 water exactly where they had been before. Dropping 

 back, we paddled the canoe close in shore, and then along 

 it until within three hundred yards of the point. After 

 landing I followed the beach, intending to creep through 

 the woods across the point, and was about to enter the 

 woods, when the cow suddenly emerged not a hundred 



feet from me, and stepping without hesitation into the 



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