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a pound, if the penalty were exacted. 

 The incident was of course reported, but 

 the circumstances were judged to be so 

 extenuating that the fine was remitted. 

 What irritating bungles may be made, 

 even by those used to fire-arms, and not 

 subject to buck-fever! Here is a story 

 as I have heard it told. The teller was 

 tramping after caribou through the 

 heavy snows of early January, and late 

 in the afternoon, on rounding the 

 spruce-covered point of a lake, two were 

 seen within easy shot, scarcely more 

 than a hundred yards away. A cart- 

 ridge was thrown from magazine to bar- 

 rel, careful aim was taken at the larger 

 animal, and the comment of Moise on a 

 clean miss was "dessus." Another shot, 

 another miss, and the same remark. The 

 bewildered creature scarcely changed 

 position while five deliberate attempts 

 were made to take its life, and each time 

 did Moi'se, with sorrowful politeness, 

 announce the shot too high. At this 



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