BULLETS AND THEIR BILLETS 



It is pleasant to refer to an exhibition 

 of coolness, of sportsmanship, and of 

 self-restraint. After days of toil and 

 disappointment, a caribou with heavy 

 antlers was stalked to within a couple of 

 hundred yards, and stood, unalarmed, 

 while its points were deliberately count- 

 ed through the glass and found to total 

 twenty-eight. Once again were they 

 gone carefully over with the same re- 

 sult; as this lacked one of the number 

 borne by a head already adorning my 

 friend's hall, he allowed the fine crea- 

 ture to depart in peace. 



One bitter cold morning in Septem- 

 ber, a canoe was being forced up a 

 Laurentian lake against wind and sea. 

 Sleet stung the face ; two stout paddlers 

 were put to it to make way against the 

 gale which chilled the thinly clad pas- 

 senger. He envied the canoemen the 

 exercise which kept them warm, and 

 their advantage in kneeling, and not 

 sitting, in the water which slopped over 



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