head he appeared to be mightily 

 amused : 



" So you got him, after all! " 



"Got who?" 



" Why that is the fellow you were 

 glad you did not shoot yesterday 

 morning. He was meant for you 

 all right. I told you he was a wonder. 

 There ain't two heads like that in 

 these parts. I noticed that right 

 palm and split ear particular." 



My emotions at this information 

 were varied. It was like finding 

 that one had strangled the ghost of 

 one's first love. The previous act 

 of mercy was nullified engulfed in 

 the present deed. 



Also with the morning came the 

 Scientist with calipers and rule, 

 note-book and pencil. The much 

 interesting information " my moose " 

 furnished for the advancement of 

 knowledge has no place in this record 

 of experience and emotion, though 

 it helped to make the scales balance. 



Nimrod also discovered, by her 

 autograph of course, that a lady 

 moose had visited this fallen mon- 

 arch of her realm; perhaps in the 

 moonlight had called gently, had 



