lo WITH CARL OF THE HILL 



Now an elk, in an ordinary way, will not pay much 

 attention to a well-trained dog. He will just move 

 slowly along, stopping now and then, as he finds the 

 dog in front, to butt, or strike at it with his feet. 

 For a good dog never bites or hurries the elk ; his 

 duty is only to try and engage its attention till the 

 hunter comes up. Nor does the woodman's axe, 

 the noise of a fowling-piece, nor any sight or sound 

 of every day alarm the elk. It is only when, 

 putting two and two together, he concludes that 

 man is after him that he is really startled and then 

 — he goes ! When that happens the hounds return 

 at once to the hunter, for a frightened elk will go for 

 thirty miles or more at a swinging trot, taking timber 

 in his stride and even crossing lakes. 



Our elk is not exactly startled, but he is uneasy. 

 He has probably been hunted before ; so he keeps 

 drawing away and drawing away, and still the day 

 wears on. 



A stern chase is a long chase, and though we 

 might have shot the elk earlier but for the denseness 

 of the trees, it is not till late in the afternoon that, 

 turning the corner of a small watercourse, we come 

 upon him standing knee-deep in the stream, perhaps 

 eighty yards away. It is a fine sight. For all his 



