S6 Tue Aroostook Woops. 

shelter from the cold winds, for these hardy fellows, though 
not seeming to care a straw for the coldest weather, have often 
been seen enjoying their warm sun-bath. So, starting the 
caribou within a mile or two of the bluff, going either way, 
then leaving them and hurrying forward, getting a good posi- 
tion upon the rocks in advance of their coming, and we had 
an advantage over them not often or easily attained. 
During two or three hunting seasons we have frequently 
seen the track of an over-large caribou, and finally had several 
times interviewed the old fellow himself, when he would be 
the first to throw up his head and bound away, carrying the 
herd after him. He was high-headed and long-legged, gaunt 
and slab-sided, his coat always bleached to tawny white and 
lightest gray, stubby, scraggy antlers, and unmistakably old 
in his looks, but not in action, for he would trot away on 
those long legs like the wind. Of course we called him the 
** Jumbo Caribou,” and his track was quickly recognized by 
its immense size. We always spared his life on account of 
his what would be tough-chewing steaks, and dry rib stews. 
But he was often threatened, for his example of extrenie 
wariness, for when with the drove, his head would be the first 
seen, high in the air, and with sniff and snort, away he would 
fiv with the herd, never known to break his trot unless to 
leap over something in his way. 
At the beginning of winter, one morning after a jolly snow 
storm, Joe and the crew being at the camp, they took the 
advantage of such elegant tracking and started off southerly, 
for a deer or caribou. Drifting away over the hills, some- 
times heading nearly east, then south, again nearly west, and 
back to south, they zig-zagged back and forth, working mostly 
south, hoping to find something handy nearhome. If not, to 
