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hair on its neck and shoulders, and sniffed at 

 me curiously. 



I now beckoned to ^Ir. Sheldon to come 

 up with his camera ; hut when the two 

 of us were standing together the calf would 

 no longer come so close. However, my 

 friend took a couple of snapshots at it, 

 before it finally ran off into the forest. The 

 moose cow was in fine condition, and that 

 evening we cared not that the meat was tough 

 and hard, but brought appetites to bear upon 

 it, such as the keen air of tlie northern 

 wilderness, combined with hard work, alone 

 can give. After skinning and quartering the 

 dead animal, we hung up all the meat we 

 could not carry with us on a pole tied between 

 two spruce trees, hoping to find it again and 

 make use of it on our return down stream. 

 However, it was all eaten up by bears long 

 before that time. 



