OF THE MOOSE. 



about five miles from camp, and all con- 

 ditions pointed to a most successful first 

 attempt at this most unsportsmanlike 

 branch of hunting. Supper over, with 

 both eager for the fray, an early start was 

 in order, and soon the silent craft with 

 its over-anxious freight left the bank 

 and started down stream. The intense 

 stillness of an early summer night was 

 not broken save by an occasional musk- 

 rat hurrying to its home in the bank or 

 the ripples playing round the bow of 

 their canoe. Mile after mile was reeled 

 off, when suddenly a loud splashing was 

 heard dead ahead in the stream. It was 

 a simple matter for the man with the 

 jack to light it, but his experience with 

 the instrument in question was limited, 

 and he had not discovered the slide 



