On Getting Acquainted 



so that a party of sportsmen there might get 

 a picture of him. The buck labored mightily; but 

 the paddles were swift, and wherever he turned 

 the danger appeared close in front of him. Sud- 

 denly he rose in the water, pawing the air, and 

 heaved over on his side. When the canoe reached 

 him he was dead ; and the surprising thing is that 

 dissection revealed no ruptured blood-vessel nor 

 any other visible cause of his death. It was 

 probably a matter of heart paralysis. Such an 

 ending was unusual, I know; but undoubtedly 

 many of these overwrought animals reach shore 

 exhausted, spent to the limit, and lie down in the 

 first good cover, never to rise again. 



Moose and caribou are stronger swimmers than 

 deer, and of tougher fiber; but it is still dangerous, 

 I think, to chase them in the water. Once I saw 

 a canoe following close behind a cow and a calf 

 moose, the canoeists yelling wildly to hurry up 

 the pace. Had they thought to look once into 

 the eyes of the struggling brutes, they might have 

 learned something which they ought to know. As 

 the calf lagged farther and farther behind, the 

 mother turned to come between him and the canoe, 

 and remained there trying to urge and push the 

 little fellow along. So they reached shallow water 

 at last, found their footing, and plunged into the 

 cover. The canoe turned away, and no doubt the 



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