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days, and was going out the next morning without a 

 moose, although his trip all the way from Scotland 

 had been expressly for the purpose of getting one. 

 Our team and saddle horse would be used by him on 

 their return trip. 



What a lure the pursuit of game is to most of the 

 inhabitants of the British Isles. Their forebears must 

 have lived by the chase solely, to have implanted in 

 them an instinct so strong as to make men of great 

 affairs, noblemen, business men and others, come over 

 3,000 miles, and then subject themselves to great hard- 

 ship and exposure, simply to satisfy that inbred desire 

 for sport. 



In Fredericton I met an Irish peer who had just 

 come " out " from a trip up the Tobique River and 

 down the Nipisquit, and his sole motive was to fish for 

 trout. He was to go " in " again the next day after 

 moose. As I had been over his whole route of the 

 Tobique and part of his Nipisquit route, we had a very 

 pleasant and interesting talk in comparing experiences. 

 He was quite democratic in his manners, putting on no 

 airs whatever. 



The team arrived at 5 p. M. We changed our 

 dunnage from the wagon to the canoe, paid off the 

 teamsters, and, after a canoe trip of four miles across 

 the lake, we arrived at the " home camp," tired, but 

 glad that we were home at last and were soon to be in 

 sight of big game. 



