harmless than a pocket pistol loackd w ilh U rscy applejack. 

 The cow soon look alarm, nouiukMX'd up llu- liaukaml in 

 lliL- IwinkliuL; of an eye they were l)oth gone, he bellow- 

 ing^ and baikinj; llirou,i;h IIk- alders, crashing down every- 

 lliini; before him in his mad rage and fury, and she 

 silently stealing away in the darkness and seclusion. 



There were two very disgusted men that night — one 

 l)ecause IIk- olher didn'l sliool and the other because his 

 ritle wouldn't shocjt. On coming into camp I made an 

 examination of the trouble and iound that on account of 

 several days' steady rain the lock of the ritle had become 

 so rustv (although greased every day) that it would not 

 work, and thereby the life of a buU-moo.se was probal)ly 

 saved. A job ;'lso awaits a gunsmith, if one can be 

 found, capable of taking a ritle apart and fixing it so that 

 it will obey the trigger, at least one time out of three. 



We ha\e now been in the woods in the northern part 



of .Maine for over three weeks. In thai lime, I think, 



we've had but two fine days, the rest being made up of 



wind, rain, snow and ice; winds from all ])oinls of the 



compass ; winds strong, to the strength of a gale, then 



softening down to a zephyr, but slill ihey were winds: 



cold winds, warm winds, moisl winds, dry winds Cyou 



see we're "moose calling," and you cannot call moose 



successfullv in windy weather; that is the reason we notice 



the wind). Rain^.-' Ves, of all degrees and conditions; 



soft rains and hard rains, gentle rains and furious down- 



])ours — one of which is now havin- things its own way 



as 1 write llii-. My guides are building a break-rain, 



break- weather, break-water ( or whatever you may please 



to call it) of fir trees. They are planning where to put 



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