144 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



the place of the one she had just lost, the biggest of 

 them all ? 



It took the united strength of the three of us, with 

 the aid of a lever, to turn the " big fellow " upon his 

 back. Then we dressed him ; removed the hide, un- 

 jointed the head and feet, cut out the hind quarters and 

 the fore quarters and washed them off thoroughly with 

 water from the brook. 



We hung up the hind quarters between two trees 

 and built a smudge fire under them and gave them 

 a smoking of two hours. Then they were sewed up 

 separately in burlap, ready for shipping. 



Before this work was finished, Albert carried the 

 feet to the lumber camps by a road which led directly 

 there from where we were at work, and this road 

 turned out to be the identical road upon which he 

 had started me the previous morning, and in following 

 which I had passed, in less than fifteen minutes from 

 the time that I left him, not twenty feet away from 

 where I killed the moose. 



The two men now carried out to the stream the 

 hind quarters, the head and the hide, leaving the fore 

 quarters to be taken away later, for these were for the 

 guides themselves. 



The reader may wonder what has been finally done 

 with the various parts of the animal. The head, of 

 course, has been mounted. The hide has been tanned 

 and lined and made into a monster rug. The four feet 



