HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



back to camp, leaving the guide to pur- 

 sue the quest, and let them know when 

 he came up to a moose. This was not 

 thoroughly sportsmanlike, they knew, 

 but they were a pair of worthy men, 

 past the meridian of life, and they 

 did not stand on the ethics of the 

 hunt. 



That night the guide returned and 

 told them he knew where there was a 

 yard of moose. Next morning, in the 

 sharp air of a snappy-cold dawn, they 

 set out to find the moose, and had 

 walked but a few miles when tracks 

 were found in the snow. Then, with 

 the guide leading them, stopping as he 

 went to avoid low branches laden with 

 snow that hung across their way, or 

 bending aside some twig to avoid noise, 



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