HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



that his gun was the best shooting tool 

 ever turned out of a gun factory. 1 

 paddled him right up to a bull moose 

 standing in the water one day, and he 

 fired every shot in his magazine at it 

 without rumpling a hair. 



" He did n't know enough to stop 

 pumping the lever when all his shells 

 were gone, and just about then I chipped 

 in with my rifle and put a ball through 

 the moose's shoulder that dropped him 

 handy to the bank. The sportsman 

 was in the act of pulling the trigger of 

 his empty gun, when he saw the moose 

 fall, and he did n't for a moment doubt 

 but what he had killed him. He felt so 

 good that he rose right up in the canoe 

 and yelled, and the next thing I knew 

 the canoe kind of slid out from under 



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