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good way off just on tlie edge of the timljer line 

 on the opposite hillside. Having forgotten to 

 bring my binoculars with me, and as the moose 

 were a long way off, we could not tell whether 

 they were a cow and calf or a big bull and a 

 cow, so I went off to get a nearer view. 



I had to dive into the thick spruce forest 

 inmiediately I started, and when I reached the 

 edge of the timber on the hillside the moose 

 had moved out of sight. An examination of 

 their tracks, however, assured me that they 

 were a cow and calf, so I started back once 

 more towards w^here I had left Louis beside 

 the stream, close to where I had killed the 

 young buU on the previous day. 



Before I got there I met Louis on his way 

 to look for me. He informed me that he 

 had been w^atching a big buU moose that 

 was coming down the open valley just above 

 us, and that he had come to look for me, fearing 

 that it Avould get into the thick timber before 

 I came back to where I had left him. 



We at once made our way up the valley 

 for perhaps a couple of hundred yards, and 



