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was quite disturbed at the idea we had been so un- 

 skillful as to alarm the moose, and expressed him- 

 self quite at length on the subject. " Boots no good 

 for hunt moose, easy scare him this time; not same 

 summer time, that time no easy scare; me talk too 

 much, scare moose last time." We agreed, how- 

 ever, that in the future the writer will muffle his 

 feet if the Indian will play a dumb role, and that 

 we will commence our reform to-morrow if the op- 

 portunity is offered. 



September 9. We have had a very strenuous 

 day and as we sit beneath our brush shelter with a 

 real man's fire radiating warmth and cheerfulness, 

 while outside of our evergreen bower the wind 

 howls and the blinding snowstorm rages through 

 the darkness, the weariness of the day's work fades 

 and a sense of restfulness and quiet amusement 

 reigns in our little camp. As I look at my dusky 

 companion the words of Kipling descriptive of 

 " Fuzzy Wuzzy," 



"I've fought with many across the seas, 

 And some of 'em was brave and some was not," 



persist in forcing their way from the margin into 

 the center of consciousness, not because of any fight 

 in which we have engaged, but by reason of the hunt 

 we have made to-day. 



The writer has hunted with many men of various 

 races, from savage to the usual white guide, from 



