from even' pore. My reverie lasted till broken b}^ Barnes^ 

 who rushed in with hardly enough wind left to shape his 

 words. He told nie that just as he got to the dam a 

 young bull-moose, with a monstrously big cow-moose, had 

 come out of the woods and were feeding in the open close 

 to the dam. It didn't take long for us to get back to that 

 dam. W^e jumped like gymnasts across the logs and 

 made some leaps that might have cau.sed the kangaroo 

 to blush and hide her head in her pouch. 



We approached the dam itself, however, very care- 

 fully, and peered over the edge of it to the open space 

 beyond. The bull was not in sight and the cow was more 

 than five hundred yards away. They, no doubt, had 

 scented the smoke from our fire, although the wind was 

 very nearly directh^ in our favor. Eut we soon saw that 

 the cow was uneasy and suspicious.- She would raise her 

 mane up and then elevate her head in tlie air, holding it 

 there for a minute or so, and then start feeding again. 

 This she did three times, and then she gave a call that 

 was almost instantly answered by the bull, who came 

 rushing out of the woods to the back and to the right of 

 her, as she ran to meet him. Then they wheeled about, 

 threw up their great heads, and with dilating nostrils, 

 both snift'"ed the suspicions scent which had alarmed the 

 cow so nuicli. They were at this monitrnt fully six to 

 seven hundred yards off, and would soon make a dash for 

 the woods, for ever}- moment seemed to increase their 

 alarm . 



I said to Barnes: "What do you think about it?' 

 Can I down that bull at this distance?' ' 



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