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if lie tries to get nearer, fires and misses. Strange to say 

 tlie elk never stirs ! The sportsman thereupon stalks up 

 to within eighty yards and again misses ! He then follows 

 the lot which the dog is still baying, reaches them in half 

 an hour, has a steady shot at forty yards at the cow (the 

 ox had left them), and misses ! After this it would seem 

 about time to ofo home. Eowino- down one of the lakes 

 they drag the boat across a small portage to another. 

 When they come in sight of it they see a large ox swimming 

 from one promontory to another, and about two hundred 

 yards off. Three shots, each nearer than the other, but 

 none (juite near enough ! Hoping to get a better chance 

 as the auimal lands, Infelix waits, but the elksw^ims behind 

 a point of rock and lands at his leisure out of sight ! 



I will draw a veil over the sufFerino;s of the actors in 

 this tragedy, and I think I had better stop there. 



HAZEL-cniOUSE. 



