I20 A Hunting Trip 



tinued to look at us until we were within fifty- 

 yards of her, when with a snort she jumped 

 on to the bank, then walked not more than ten 

 yards away, where she stopped to look at us 

 while we passed her not more than twenty 

 yards away. She followed our course along 

 the bank for more than one hundred yards, 

 when she stopped to give a series of sniffs 

 and snorts, pawing the earth with her hoofs, 

 and the last we saw of her was her white tail 

 going through the brush. We continued our 

 journey up to the head of the dead-water, 

 where we landed and waited for an hour be- 

 fore returning down-stream. As we were 

 going carefully along, on reaching a point 

 about two hundred yards from a bend, we 

 sighted a large cow moose on the shore; and 

 it being the rutting season, the guide said, 

 " Keep perfectly quiet ; there might be a bull 

 around with the cow." He at the same time 

 pushed our canoe toward shore, where the cow 

 having seen us had started for the forest. 

 Going on shore and stalking our way carefully 

 we were rewarded for our pains by seeing a 

 large bull some three hundred feet away; but 



