PREFACE. 



" This is the forest primeval." " It 

 is my home." So spoke the moose. 

 Suffice it is to say, that a prize trophy 

 over one's fireplace is an object to be 

 admired by one and all. It brings you 

 back to a last hunting trip, and well -do 

 you remember, as you gaze thereon, what 

 a chase it had led you in life, through 

 bog and alder swamp, until at last an 



opportunity presented itself whereby the 

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