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seen a man take a great disappointment better 

 than my friend. 



Had such bitter bad Inck at any time be- 

 fallen the prophet Job, I think it is extremely 

 probable that he might have nsed language 

 of a character most damaging to his reputa- 

 tion. 



One often hears that it is only possible to 

 call up a bull moose by imitating the cry of 

 the cow, after a great deal of practice, and 

 that moose calling is an art so difficult of 

 acquirement, that it has always proved to be 

 beyond the powers of any but a very few 

 white men. 



This may be the case in New Brunswick and 

 other parts of Eastern Canada, where moose 

 have become very wary and suspicious, but in 

 the Yukon country where they have never yet 

 been deceived and led astray by spurious 

 imitations of the female voice, I fancy that a 

 bull moose when in a condition of amorous 

 frenzy, would probably come to investigate any 

 noise that even remotely resembled the belloY\^ 

 of a cow. At any rate Mr. Sheldon had had no 



