76 FISH : THEIR HABITS AND HAUNTS. 



sional call, waiting for an answer. We kept 

 this up for about a mile, when we got to a 

 place where the trees nearly met in the bog. 

 There we crossed, and found we were ahead 

 of them, with the wind towards us. While 

 waiting for an answer, or some sound to 

 break the great stillness, I saw a dark object 

 fifty or seventy-five yards .distant from me 

 in the thick trees moving along. It fairly 

 made my hair stand on end. I made up my 

 mind to fire. As the darkness was great, I 

 fired as near the shoulder as I could aim 

 through the trees. While I put down an- 

 other shell with bullet, David ran ahead and 

 fired, as we could not see what the animal 

 was, and the moose, for such it proved to be, 

 dropped. My first shot was fatal, but of 

 course Davi'd did not know it. With both guns 

 unloaded, we went up to it ; I cut its throat. 

 As I stood up on a stump I saw another one 

 not thirty yards off coming up. I reached 

 my gun, and got in the last bullet I had. 



