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legs, cooked immediately after tlie animal is killed. 

 This, served on toast, with a sprinkling of cayenne 

 pepper, would make the mouth of the most fastidious 

 epicure water, if he had previous experience of its 

 excellence. 



The moose deer changes much in appearance with 

 the rotations of the seasons. In summer the coat is 

 short and fine ; in winter coarse and long. Under- 

 neath the hair is found an abundant crop of soft wool, 

 which doubtless enables them to endure the greater 

 severity of the northern winters. The face-hair, differ- 

 ent from that of the horse or cow, grows upwards from 

 the mouffle, on the termination of which there is a 

 triangular bare spot. The power of the jaws and teeth 

 of the moose is very great. The facility with which 

 they strip the bark from those trees that constitute 

 their favourite food is wonderful. Their pace is either 

 a walk or trot, the usual bounding gait of other 

 species being unknown to them. Even if a fallen tree 

 interrupt their progress, instead of rising at it like a 

 horse, they manage to clamber over in a most effective 

 manner. 



Not far from Trois Rivieres, in Canada, I heard of a 

 moose deer being broken in for saddle purposes. The 

 truth of this I am more than sceptical about. I have 

 also been informed that a brace were broken for harness, 



