260 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



CHAPTEE XIV. 



CONTINUATION OF MOOSE-HUNT ON SNOW-SHOES 

 AND WITH DOGS AT POET JOLI, QUEEN'S 

 COUNTY, NOVA SCOTIA. 



ON the re-start for home all (dogs and hunters) 

 showed they were tired by the way they 

 trudged along, but encouraged by the hope 

 that each step carried them nearer rest, as also 

 near a moose, which Eeady had made me 

 promise to fire at if if what ? if we got 

 another chance. When that part of the track 

 was reached where we saw the dogs had 

 turned back in the morning, it was evident we 

 were following one a day or two old, for there 

 was no scent in it, and the prospect of coming 

 up with the maker, unless yarded near Louis 

 Lake, a short distance ahead, was slim. 



Up to within 400 yards of the lake there 

 was no change in its appearance, and the dogs 



