MOOSE AND CARIBOU 



the coolest-headed, most reserved chap in the 

 face of adversity or an emergency I have ever 

 been out with, and one of the most obliging and 

 uniformly courteous companions imaginable. 

 On this day Harry had a very distressing ex- 

 perience and one that might have turned out 

 disastrously with a less careful man. He and 

 Jimmy Brown were stalking a caribou on the 

 river bar of the Generc, but from different direc- 

 tions, each trying to drive it toward the other. 

 They were separated by about five hundred 

 yards, and William and Billy (together) occupied 

 another position about the same distance from 

 Harry as Jimmy was. The three parties thereby 

 formed the three points of a triangle. Suddenly 

 Jimmy disappeared from Harry's view in a 

 "wash" of the bar. For some time he remained 

 out of sight. Then, glancing toward the position 

 occupied by William and Billy, who had re- 

 mained concealed from view up to this time, 

 Harry saw the black, uncovered head of Billy 

 projecting above its hiding place in the bar. 

 Thinking it was Jimmy, who had sneaked up to 

 this position, Harry immediately released all 

 thought of Jimmy as being in his old location, 

 and fired in that direction occasionally as the 

 course of the animal justified. It was lucky of 

 course that no one was hurt. The incident is 

 recorded here for the lesson that it may be to 

 other hunters who may some time find them- 

 selves in the same position under similar con- 



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