CRUST AND LAKE HUNTING. 521 



Another adventurer, more daring than the first, took up 

 a position on the trunk of a fallen tree, almost touching 

 the flanks of the animal w!th his feet, and reaching over 

 dropped a second rope upon its horns, and was proceeding 

 triumphantly to give it a turn around the trunk, thinking 

 they had it all safe now. The creature shook its head, and 

 making a sudden plunge forward, jerked the men headfore- 

 most from both rocky shelf and log, snapping their nooses. 

 They fell against the hinder parts of the moose ; hut as those 

 in front, seeing their danger, made a great clamor at the 

 moment, the animal did not notice them; though, as it 

 retreated hack to its strong position, it trampled upon their 

 prostrate forms with its hind feet. The fellows yelled to 

 them to shoot, but as they had irritated the moose in front, it 

 mado a dash at them again, and they crawled out considerably 

 bruised. Not discouraged by any means, as yet, another 

 of the party succeeded in getting hold of the end of the 

 broken rope, and this was immediately secured to a limb 

 of the fallen tree once more. 



They now thought they were certain to triumph, as they 

 roped its horns more securely than before, and proceeded to 

 throw slip-nooses among its feet, in the hope that it might 

 step into them, and that they would then be able to throw it. 

 It was very wary of the ropes. They thus caught one foot 

 only, after worrying the whole day with the creature, and 

 getting several of the party even more severely hurt. But 

 when the hunter who had this rope, and who was standing 

 directly in front of the infuriated animal, attempted to jerk 

 the foot from under it, it made one tremendous surge at him, 

 snapped the rope about its horns, and tossed him into the air 

 some ten feet on its broad, snow-shoveling antlers while the 

 second hero of the ropes on the log had his legs jerked from 

 under him, and fell as the first had fallen. There was a 

 frightened scattering of the whole party this time in earnest, 

 while the moose, with bristling sulkia'ss, retreated again to 



