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island lake. The difRculties were great ; and we had to pull up for 

 the night, choosing a good place for calling of course, for one, though 

 only one, more moose must fall to our party, and that one must 

 carry the finest antlers. At night we called, and were answered from 

 the direction in which we had come on our trail. Being fatigued, 

 and somewhat indifferent from the reflection that a dead shot would 

 necessitate some nine hundred- weight of meat being ' backed ' out of 

 the woods, we gradually all slumbered. I was up very early. The 

 rocks on which I had lain had pierced almost to my bones, and I felt 

 particularly sore about the right hip. I smoked, then called, and 

 was at once answered by what was in my opinion the moose of the 

 previous evening. On he came dashingly — no signs of fear about his 

 note. I roused up Peter, and after some fifteen minutes attentive 

 listening, finding he was not far distant, sent him off" to call from 

 some bushes about one hundred yards away. The moose presently 

 came in view. He was crippled in his gait, almost dead lame in the 

 off fore leg. He carried just what I wanted, an A 1 pair of antlers. 

 I shot him, and am persuaded that he was not more than ten yards 

 from me at the time ; he was bound, with head erect, for the bushes 

 wherein was secreted Peter. All the noise (my shot having been 

 fired absolutely over the head of my other camp follower, the boy 

 Stephen) had failed to arouse the slumbering son of the forest. 

 There he lay until I hauled off his blanket, when he appeared quite 

 annoyed at the close proximity of the antlered monarch. Upon 

 examination we found that in the previous season this beast had 

 got sadly mauled in a fight. Five ribs had been broken on one 

 side, three on the other. His lameness was accounted for by the fact 

 that the outside joint of his foot on the off side had been dislocated 

 and had set out. 



" The morning being very calm Peter proposed that we should 

 leave the boy to get breakfast, and ourselves take up positions on 

 two hills adjacent to look for bear. In case we saw any, the signal 

 was to be the hat raised on the muzzle of the gun from the hill top. 

 I had not been long on my look-out when I espied black objects 

 moving, but not being certain of their genus, I started to ascertain, 

 and soon came upon a fine cow moose with an attendant bull, a two- 

 year-old. I strolled back to my look-out, and being tired, I suppose 

 I " slept upon sentry." I was awakened by a shot, closely followed 

 by another, again two more in quick succession. Now I knew that 

 our party was alone in those deep woods, and that Peter had carried 

 my smooth bore, for which I had handed him only four bullets, with 



