96 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



wanted to test a new rifle ; the distance at which he 

 had fired was said to have been 250 yards. 



It would seem that the rifle must have been all right 

 and the aim sure, or the victim whose body was substi- 

 tuted for a rifle butt would not have been lying where 

 we found him. 



The wind had now freshened to such a velocity that 

 hunting was out of the question, and we headed 

 for the home camp, where we arrived in time for 

 dinner. 



Here we found a gentleman who had been out over 

 thirty days after a moose, and although he had had 

 plenty of chances, yet he was unsuccessful. He was to 

 start homeward as soon as a team and a saddle horse 

 would arrive, the one to take his dunnage and the 

 other for him to ride. 



He didn't seem at all chagrined at his want of suc- 

 cess, although he emptied the magazine of his rifle in 

 firing at one moose. He took the matter philosophic- 

 ally and had very little to say about his repeated 

 misses. 



In the afternoon we made a trip to Irland Lake and 

 found some really fresh tracks there, and in conse- 

 quence we made quite an extensive detour to see if we 

 couldn't come in closer touch with the makers of the 

 tracks. Henry, in the meantime, made frequent 

 calls with the birch-bark horn, but no answer was 

 elicited. 



