i8o MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



cruise the covered-in bow is filled with little 

 ice-cakes if they can be got, if not, by snow, 

 the one or other to relieve the boat of woody 

 appearance. When the clamper ice enters 

 the harbours with the flood tide, as it does 

 when they are open, then the geese and 

 brants feed around them on the particles of 

 eel-grass they (the clampers) have started 

 from the bottom when aground at low 

 water. The birds thus busily engaged, the 

 ice-boat can readily be paddled up within 

 shot. 



Did you hear those four guns a little ago ? 

 I did, and the boys must have found some 

 game. After half an hour or so, bang went 

 the guns again. Only three this time. Hardly 

 had we noticed, when bang went the fourth. 

 The tide is coming, and they will soon have 

 to return, so we that is, my boatman and 

 myself were becoming very anxious to find 

 out what all that firing resulted in. Well, 

 patience had its perfect work, and after a 

 while we saw them in the distance dragging 

 the sledge, which was almost a sure indication 

 of some game. As they came nearer, we could 

 not stand the pressure of suspense, so went to 



