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own satisfaction, but I fear not at all so to the general pub- 

 lic. For myself, when I have formed a theory in reference 

 to this animal's antlers, and possibly nursed it for some 

 time, I have had the misfortune or otherwise to kill a cari- 

 bou that annihilated the pretty little structure I had built. 

 Thus the horns here represented, although taken from life, 

 must not be accepted as a stereotyped pattern of the whole 

 family. 



