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Tom, said, " Let us get down the stream ; it 

 seems to me I heard the thump, thump of a 

 moose in the water below here." So we all 

 got into the canoe, with Tom in the bow and 

 Archie in the stern. The water was calm — not 

 a ripple on the surface as the canoe glided 

 quietly down; and the silence of the scene 

 was complete, save at times for the noisy rattle 

 of a belted kingfisher, as he left his solitary 

 perch on some old dead limb, to make a dive 

 into the water, with a splash, for fish. Sud- 

 denly the quick, experienced ear of Tom de- 

 tected the " splash-splash " of something in 

 the water below, around a short turn in the 

 stream. Tom then beckoning Archie to go 

 quietly, they pushed the canoe to the bank, 

 when Tom and the nimrod slipped ashore, 

 where, after peering industriously through the 

 brush, Tom declared, " Another cow moose." 

 The moose took the alarm and started for the 

 woods, but just as it reached the shore Tom 

 discovered it was a young bull with his bell and 

 short horns. After he had gone some yards 

 Tom executed a call in imitation of a cow, and 

 the bull stopped suddenly at about 150 yards' 



