OF THE MOOSE. 



They thought luck might take a turn in 

 their favor, but were ready to sustain 

 themselves in hope deferred if it did not. 



The judge and the banker went into 

 the woods from a little settlement on 

 the Aroostook River. They travelled 

 a good sixty miles by horse-sled in the 

 snow before reaching the place where 

 they were to engage guides. It was 

 another twenty-five miles to the camp 

 where they put up on their first night 

 out, a "depot" camp, where lumber 

 crews going in and out stopped to rest 

 and sleep. 



On the morning after their arrival the 

 two hunters set out in the snow with 

 their guide to look for moose signs. 

 They walked half a dozen miles with- 

 out finding any, and, getting tired, went 



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