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number of Frenchmen who were fishing. Some of 



1 of it, very heavy men, and I 



iiow their horses had managed 



ad ro;*< judging by 



ainly looked incapable 



clothed in a variety of 



jersey in broad green 



Ti . c a delightfully cheery 



excellent sport, they told us, catching 



it up to. 7 Ibs. in weight. 



At this camp we left our last buck-board with the 

 horse and man belonging to it, and had I only been 

 able -xperience through which the man 



whom v ie because of the extra- 



ordinary j al friend was 



with 

 



:d, as he 



opined, idng slowly 



j.he hut. Charlie appears 



for a time e been interested in the "gros gros 



>'/," but later felt puzzled what to do, as the 



moose continued to come nearer and nearer, and Charlie 



had no weapon but a revolver, though, as he explained 



to us afterwards, " If I had had a permission, I 



could have killed him with that, he was so c3 



The upshot of the incident was tame, for Charlie 



tened the moose away, though he assured us 



i it not fled when I shouted, I should have fired, 



; hout a per.- . ' Questioned as to the size 



>>ull, he repeated, " Gros, grosf" and his story 



