BULLETS AND THEIB BILLETS 



away, on a sand-spit running out into 

 the lake, he saw in the failing light the 

 characteristic heavy bodies, the short 

 legs and low-swinging heads. At four 

 hundred yards, as the animals had turn- 

 ed and were making slowly for the 

 woods, there seemed nothing for it but 

 to take the chance. The first shot went 

 low, but the second got home, and in 

 such time as weary men may do a quar- 

 ter-mile over sand, stones and fallen 

 timber, the couple came up with a two 

 year old cow moose ! One glance through 

 the glass would have shown that, instead 

 of two bears on a sandbar, two moose 

 were standing in the water beyond it, 

 cut off at mid-leg by the intervening 

 ridge, and presenting with quite diaboli- 

 cal deceptiveness the appearances de- 

 scribed. The government of Quebec 

 does not permit war to be waged against 

 women, so the effect of the unhappy bul- 

 let was to secure a supply of meat (much 

 needed by the way) at some two dollars 

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