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limbered up and fired four more shots 

 as quick as he could work the lever. 

 None of them touched the moose, and 

 it moved off into the bushes, without 

 seeming to mind the racket very much. 

 The moose was n't nearly as rattled as 

 Mr. A. That man was completely pros- 

 trated with excitement. Nothing would 

 do but we must go straight back to 

 camp. He said his nerves were too 

 badly broken up to stand anything more 

 of the kind that day. 



" Well, sir, we had n't gone more than 

 three hundred yards on our return trip, 

 when I saw another bull on the bog ad- 

 jacent to the stream. I paddled Mr. A. 

 within good, easy range, and he tried 

 his luck again, but the bullet struck the 

 water twenty feet to the right. With 

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