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make no noise. I Lad almost got down to the 

 highest growing spruce trees, and a few more 

 yards of descent woidd have enabled me to 

 reach good cover, wlien I saw that the 

 larger moose was standing exactly head on to 

 me, as if it was looking at me, so I crouched 

 slowly down, and then remained motionless. 

 Minute after minute passed and the suspicious 

 animal never moved, but at last it turned and 

 walked up to where its j'ounger companion had 

 been all the time quietly browsing, and both 

 of them then commenced to feed towards me. 



I now crawled very slowly and cautiously to 

 one of the highest growing spruce trees, and 

 saw that the moose were not more than two 

 hundred yards away from me. I crawled fifty 

 yards nearer, and was just getting into position 

 for a sitting shot, when I found there was a 

 scrubby bush in my line of fire. I was edging 

 slowly sideways to get beyond this bush, when 

 my weight coming on a dry stick it broke with 

 a loud crack. 



At once both the moose faced towards me, 

 and almost immediately turned round and 



