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wiiKKi: Tin-: stoktsmax lovk.s to linger. 



us. The hotel was full of sportsmen and liuides. Vale 

 Colleiio students were s\vap])ini4' yai-ns witli the sous of tlie 

 forest. AVe listeiieil xncII on to iiiidnl^lit to tlie inti^restini*' 

 experieuees of tlie .guides of Xortlieru ^I.-iine. It was witli 

 interest Ave heai-d the story of one of the i;uides showing 



Cliesuncook Dam. 



the instinet of the monarch of tlie uamc^ of Maine — the 

 moose. It was during the early hunting season. Tlie guide 

 was one of two in. charge of a Philadelphia partj^ 

 who Avere cam])ing on Eagle Lake. As near as we can recol- 

 lect, the story ran as follows: 



''We got our drinking AA'ater at a spring near the lake. 

 The night before^ we Avere to break camp tliei-e Avas a fall 

 of aboul t\\() im Ik^s of snow. As T went to the spring the 

 next morninii' T noticed the largest moose ti'acks I e\'er 



