HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



means that nature has given the bull all 

 the beauty of antlers in profusion. 



With far greater agility and cunning 

 than any other animal of its weight, the 

 moose is a formidable opponent when 

 attacked. Some narrow escapes have 

 been made by hunters using the old cap 

 gun, but now with the breech-loader the 

 speed that guarantees security is given. 



I have seen a great curiosity in the 

 form of the horns of two moose inextri- 

 cably interlocked. The story these horns 

 tell is that a duel to the death had taken 

 place in a forest glade between a bull 

 moose of eight hundred pounds weight 

 and a .younger one of perhaps four hun- 

 dred pounds. The larger had an antler 

 spread of three feet eight inches, the 

 smaller, that of three feet. In the shock 

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