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from tree to bush, for a moment, soon attracting his attention, 
when we immediately stepped to cover. This brought him 
to us almost at once. Throwing up his head he came trotting 
down with the wind to within a few rods of us, when know- 
ing he was about where he saw the supposed caribou, stopped 
to look about him, and received a shot. As he ran off to 
one side, from another ambuscade he received the second shot, 
when he plunged madly on out of sight. Quickly after the 
shooting, before any of us had stirred from our cover, down 
withthe wind and trotting directly for us, came another, a young 
buck, and as he halted like the first in nearly the same spot, 
two or three shots struck him and he leaped away behind the 
trees after the other. Following their tracks, we found they 
had been badly wounded, signs showing this at each jump. 
Coming to where a number of the small dry juniper trees had 
been broken off by the breast of the large one, we soon saw 
him lying quite dead behind the evergreens. A few steps 
further on the young buck also was lying, his spirit already 
far away in the sunny glades of those vast and endless happy 
hunting grounds. 
Drawing them back and behind the shelter of the evergreens 
where we had done the shooting, we went quickly at work to 
dress them, it being best to do so as soon as down if possible. 
The younger of our party, a mere lad, was told by his 
guardian to build us a fire as quickly as possible, as the wind 
was now whistling down the long reach with a chilling effect 
upon us after the excitement. This he proceeded to do, but 
often his eye was away up the barren, and it was but a few 
moments after that he made the most admirable shot that can 
be given an animal. Admirable because it gave no pain, 
being instantaneous death. I believe our young friend had 
