HABITS, 'HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



cumbed to starvation. A similar case 

 is reported, and is thus described : 



" No mortal eye witnessed what must 

 have been a prolonged and fearful con- 

 test ; but when their bodies were found 

 in the lake the story of what had taken 

 place was easily understood. The 

 ground for some distance from the lake 

 was torn and trampled where the fero- 

 cious animals had charged upon each 

 other, and when the bodies were exam- 

 ined the antlers were found to be so 

 firmly interlocked that it was impossible 

 to separate them. In order to secure 

 one good pair the finder sawed the other 

 pair away, it not occurring to him at 

 the time that the interlocked antlers 

 would be of considerably more value 

 than many pairs in the ordinary condi- 

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