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MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



luck! After we had partly recovered from 

 our excitement, we went in for examination, 

 and to bleed him. We found that every 

 bullet had hit him, and any one of them 

 would have eventually killed him, while one 

 had gone through his heart. His antlers were 

 six feet wide beauties, and his body weighed 

 950 Ibs. " There," said Jack, " didn't I 

 tell you we were going to see this big 

 fellow, and would get a shot at him ? " We 

 partly dressed him that night, and finished 

 him next morning, when Bob at daylight 

 started out to the Broad Eiver settlement, 

 for a yoke of oxen and a couple of hands 

 to help in getting the game to the post-road. 

 This ox-team, with our own from town with 

 a span of horses, reached the camp at ten 

 o'clock. We took the oxen on to the Big Bog, 

 and up beside the carcase of our big fellow 

 just where he fell, and loaded him on there. 

 While doing this, Bob and the town driver 

 were loading up the other waggon at the 

 camp, so that when we returned to them, 

 everything was ready for a good-bye meal, 

 and a speedy start for home. 

 At one o'clock we bade the scenes of a 



