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of our party, an expert photographer, and together 

 they paddled up to the imprisoned moose. With an 

 axe the cedar root was cut and the moose's leg was 

 freed. 



The next thing was to get the intelligent animal out. 

 They used a sapling as a lever, putting it between his 

 hind legs, with a log for a fulcrum. With one man 

 pulling at his antlers, the other hoisting him by 

 means of the lever, and the moose doing all that he 

 could to help them, he was at last liberated. 



Both men say that he thanked them as eloquently 

 with his eyes, and by turning round and looking at 

 them with every step he took, until he waded across the 

 thoroughfare, as any human being could possibly have 

 done. 



All his instinctive dread of human beings had disap- 

 peared, and he showed by his actions that he appreciated 

 to the full the fact that the men had actually saved his 

 life. 



This was on a Tuesday a few days afterward we 

 were out my guide and I at night when the moon was 

 shining very bright and the air was absolutely still. 

 We heard a pair of moose feeding up the stream. Pad- 

 dling silently toward them we first came up with a very 

 large cow feeding on the left hand side of the brook. 

 And next we found that she was mated with the 

 same little bull whom we had rescued, for he was now 

 her lord and protector. 



