A SPOILT FILM 



under the bank, practically out of sight of the animals, 

 but I thought that by standing up in the canoe I should 

 be able to get my picture. In my eagerness I had 

 forgotten that, at the best of times, a canoe is not a 

 very stable craft. 



When I came to develop the film I found a few feet 

 with the moose on it quite good ; then followed a 

 panorama of the forest, followed by a blank. The 

 end was darkness. The explanation was that for the 

 first few seconds everything had been right, but 

 afterwards I had lost my balance and had landed in 

 the lake with a mighty splash. Still, I had not lost 

 my head, but had retained my grip on the apparatus, 

 and had scrambled back into the canoe with it. 

 Probably the moose was puzzled by all this and bolted. 



Once I managed to get some fairly good pictures 

 of a moose feeding. At first she was not in the least 

 timid, but apparently desired to see who and what 

 I was, for she swam towards me. Then suddenly 

 she must have decided that I was an enemy, for she 

 turned quickly and made towards the shore. When 

 she had swum some fifty yards her calf, which had 

 remained quietly on the bank, got up and stretched 

 itself, looked round, and seeing its mother in the water 

 and our boat in the distance took alarm. A moment 

 later it had plunged into the water, taking a short cut 

 to rejoin its parent. But the latter was now too greatly 

 scared to wait. She took no notice of her offspring, 



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