probably had small horns. But he 

 whacked the bushes always to the 

 left. See? Have you ever noticed, 

 antlers is hardly ever reglar? Right 

 or left side is always bigger. 

 Now that's according to whether he's 

 right or left-handed. If he's left- 

 handed the horn is nat'rally smaller 

 from being used more and broke 

 off- 



" Why not bigger from being devel- 

 oped more?" 



Bert looked at me pityingly. 



"Don't work that way." Nim- 

 rod, rapidly sketching, was non- 

 committal. 



The rain had drizzled itself out 

 when we got back to the canoe at 

 dark. We decided not to ' call ' at 

 the outlet that night, but to give the 

 big moose until morning to forget 

 his alarm, and besides, we wanted 

 to try 'jacking' at midnight. 



Again the silent easeful passage 

 through the water, only the monot- 

 onous dip of the paddles as a young 

 moon hung itself between a mass of 

 fluffy clouds and a black horizon 

 line. Toward the north were strange 

 unstable lights silvering the sky, a 



