128 THe Aroostook Woops. 
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and a long steady gaze, and then a low boo-oo-o as he again 
lowers his head and tosses it up high and takes a step forward, 
stops, then growing bolder, hastens on a bit, stops, turns, 
facing the herd an instant, wheels and stands facing the flag 
again, while all follow up irregularly and stop behind him, 
pretty near the shanty, the calves hanging well back in the 
rear. After stamping a bit here, he backs quickly, half 
slipping down, causing a general backing from the herd and 
a turning and jumping from the calves. Again his courage 
is good, though so near. He steps ahead about his length, 
when as he stamps again upon the ice, a stronger blast of 
wind causes the bandanna to loudly flap, which frightens 
him at last; he gives two or three jumps and trots away in a 
half circle and strikes out for the point from which he came 
to the ice from the forest. All start with him, circling out 
the other way from the bough shanty and join him below. 
The calves, not as yet well used to smooth ice beneath the 
snow, get several tumbles before balancing well upon their 
skates, and the circus was out. 
In their brave and fighting time, in the fall of the year, 
they are said to have been found dead, dying in mortal com- 
bat, their horns interlocked in such a manner that they could 
not extricate themselves, each at the first, no doubt, attaching 
all blame to the other for his being placed in such a predica- 
ment; they would fight with fiercest energy until one of them 
is dead, holding his rival in his death deadlock until both are 
no more. 
The caribou with his long legs, large feet and wide spread- 
ing hoofs cares but little for our deép snows, and will run and 
wade through them untiringly for many miles. When the 
surface of the deep snow has become just a little stiff from thaw- 
