HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



returned home empty handed. He 

 scorned to shoot deer. He hardly would 

 have brought down a bear had one pre- 

 sented himself to be shot. He wanted 

 moose. It was a hard country for hunt- 

 ing, a place of boulders and blowdowns 

 and stumps, a desolate waste. He saw 

 moose tracks, and he was there to follow 

 them, which he did long and wearily, 

 for a day, and at night he slept in an 

 abandoned camp. Again on the next 

 day he followed them, seeing them some- 

 times on the soft, green moss, again at 

 the side of a stream, or in some boggy 

 place. At times they were lost on a 

 rocky slope, or in a region of hard 

 ground. There was no snow to aid the 

 hunter, and the tracking of moose in 

 such a country without it called for the 

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