324: A LESSON LEARNED. 



to run down the log, but leaped to the ground, and had hia 

 teeth in the animal's throat before the echoes of my rifle 

 were done dancin' around among the mountains. I loaded 

 my gun before I came down, thinkin' maybe there might be 

 another bad tempered moose about, but there wasn't. Crop 

 and I learned what we ought to 've know before, and that 

 was that it's a safe thing for a hunter to have an extra 

 horn of powder in his pocket, and a loaded rifle in his hand 

 when a mad bull moose is on his trail, and that a slantin' 

 tree is a good thing to get onto at sich a time." 



