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friend, the moose-bird, is very happy 

 to relieve him of. Sebatis states that 

 the moose permits the bird to alight 

 upon him for that purpose, and judg- 

 ing from what I have seen of the 

 tameness of the moose-bird, and the 

 liberties that he takes with the vis- 

 itors to the woods, I can readily 

 believe it. Moreover, the moose- 

 bird is a carrion bird, and perhaps, 

 on the advent of hunters, " smelleth 

 the battle afar off." 



A few years since, in the month of 

 October, on returning from grouse- 

 hunting I was belated, and, darkness 

 overtaking me, I accepted the invita- 

 tion of my friend Sebatis to spend the 

 night at his wigwam. Sebatis in his 

 rambles had discovered the trail and 

 sign of a large moose, and proposed 

 that I should join him in beating up 

 his quarters next day. 



In the morning, I sent into the village for my rifle and a supply 

 of provisions, on the receipt of which we enlisted the services of 

 Swarsin, a brother of Sebatis, and boarded the latter's canoe in the 

 lake where he had left it the previous evening. We paddled three 



JAY AND CBOAI HIKI'V 



