great size of some of them we wonder how they can be grown in 

 so short a time, as the antlers are shed each year. 



The caribou lives upon the mosses and lichens found in his 

 native haunts of snow and ice, but he is also fond of the sedge 

 grass in the marshes. To aid him in obtaining this, nature has 

 furnished him with broad, flat, cloven hoofs, which bear him equally 

 well over the soft fields of snow or the yielding surface of miry 

 boggy bottoms. He is one of the best of travelers, graceful and 

 rapid, with his long swinging stride, and proving so tireless that it 

 is impossible to keep his trail. His scent is very keen and if ap- 

 proached must not be with the wind, even if he can see you there 

 is a doubt in his mind whether to leave or not, but not so if he 

 once has the wind in his favor, there is then no chance of getting 

 him. 



In size the woodland caribou is about six feet long and four 

 high at the shoulders, while his weight will vary from two hundred 



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