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the valley, so I ke'pt ou in the same direction, 

 but in a disconsolate mood, for it seemed the 

 very irony of fate that this snowstorm should 

 have come on at so inconvenient a time. 



I had walked close down to the creek, and 

 had but small expectations of ever coming up 

 with tlie wounded animal again, Avhen, to my 

 amazement, I saw it within two himdred yards 

 of me, on the hillside beyond. The snow flurry 

 had now ahnost ceased as suddenly as it had 

 commenced, and I could see the moose quite 

 plainly standing amongst some scattered spruce 

 scrub. If it had gone only a few yards further 

 it would have got amongst some thickly growing 

 trees, and I should then almost certainly have 

 lost it. It must have seen me coming on 

 towards the creek, but was probably too severely 

 wounded to move, and another bullet behind 

 the shoulder killed it at once. 



It looked a very line dark coloured animal, 

 and was excessively fat. It was much younger 

 probably than the first bull 1 had killed, and 

 had a bell, hanging down like a tail from its 

 throat, quite eighteen inches in length. Louis 



