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told me tliat old moose never have long bells. 

 Whether they get torn off in the thick scrub 

 which these animals often frequent, or dry up 

 and drop off when they are five or six years old, 

 I do not know, but I believe it to be a fact that 

 old moose never have long bells hanging from 

 their throats. The head which this moose 

 carried would have been considered a fairly 

 good one in Eastern Canada, as the horns had 

 a spread of nearly fifty inches and the palms 

 were broad. 



I now set to work to open the huge carcase 

 and take out the inside, no ver^^ easy matter 

 with no one to help me. In fact as I could not 

 turn the dead moose on to its back I had first of 

 all to cut off the upper hind leg before I could 

 disembowel it. 



I then started for camp but darkness over- 

 took me when I was still some miles away. 

 However, the night was clear, and I eventually 

 got back all right, but very tired, as I know 

 nothing more exhausting than floundering 

 through a willow swamp in the Yukon country 

 in the dark, and I had to get through some 



