MORE OF THE MOOSE. 



The Paragon of Animals. 



— Hamlet. 



THE same morning of the caribou hunt, we left the 

 old bull l.ving in the road, and started back upon 

 our tracks, at about eleven o'clock, to prosecute our 

 search for the dam we had originalh^ started out to find. 

 Upon reaching the brook we followed it upward some 

 distance, until the guide, who was quite "done up,'' said 

 he'd make a fire and boil some hot water in a tin dipper 

 for my dinner. I decided, however, to push on until I 

 found that dam, telling him to stay where he was until 



my return. 



The stream here 



was choked up with 

 cut logs, which made 

 it nice and easy walk- 

 ing, or easy jump- 

 ing from log to log. 

 Twenty minutes of 

 this sort of travel 

 and I reached the 



BARNES, THE GUIDE, " DONE UP ' ON A CARIBOU HUNT, 'K \ A ( A 



DRAWS COMFORT FROM HIS PIPE. long-looKea-ior aam. 



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