HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



beyond the ravine-like formation with 

 the brook hugging its lowest point, 

 when there were unmistakable evidences 

 of large game. Moose it was. Tracks 

 as large as a cow, great rents in the 

 snow crust, through which the brown 

 earth showed in spots ; these were some 

 of the traces. I went back across the 

 ravine and proceeded up-stream, follow- 

 ing the east bank ; saw several fresh 

 tracks, but they were cows, and along 

 in the afternoon, while travelling up an 

 old brook, I saw the imprints of a large 

 bull, and they were big ones, together 

 with a cow and calf. It did not take 

 me long to decide what to do, and as 

 they followed the brook I knew that 

 they had not heard me. The wind was 

 favorable and they were working up 

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