.HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



coming at a rapid pace. The guide con- 

 tinued to call at regular intervals, and in 

 a few minutes another answer was heard 

 far down the bog, though this time from 

 a smaller moose. A few seconds later 

 brought a reply from a third, in another 

 direction. The sport was getting excit- 

 ing. The guide came down from his 

 perch on the rock and stationed his em- 

 ployer and himself behind a smaller 

 boulder, over which it was possible to 

 look while lying on the ground. The 

 guide thought the young moose would 

 not come up for fear of the larger ones, 

 and of course the one he wanted was the 

 monster that had first answered, In 

 that, however, he was disappointed. The 

 distance was considerable, and while the 

 big bull was still a long way off he was 

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