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moose a chance to lie down and bleed to death. My 

 French Canadian, with a whiff of his old clay pipe, 

 gave it as his opinion that the bull was mortally 

 wounded, that we would find him in a few minutes, and 

 advised that we follow him at once. "We did so, find- 

 ing no difficulty whatever in tracking him as his trail 

 was almost a continuous stream of blood, excepting 

 when his wound had apparently become clogged with 

 a piece of the pink tissue, and then for a few yards 

 we would lose his trail ; but only for a few yards, for 

 soon the gushing blood would spurt its passage 

 through and form another pool. And thus we fol- 

 lowed on, over ridges and through swamps and bogs, 

 hoping soon to catch a sight of our expected prize. 

 Sometimes we would strike a place where the bull had 

 stopped to listen ; and again where he had gone around 

 a windfall, showing he was hard hit, if not mortally 

 wounded. How did we reach these conclusions ? 

 Simply enough. The hunter if he be anything of a 

 detective, which he should be on seeing, as we saw, 

 a plainly drawn half circle of blood, would say : 

 " Here he stopped and turned half around to listen." 

 In the second instance, if he had not been hard hit he 

 would have gone over the windfall and not around it. 

 Once we saw where he had leaned against a tree, 

 either to rest or listen, or both, but nowhere was there 

 any evidence that he had lain down. Twice in our 

 pursuit we heard him crashing through the brush 



