AWAY TO THE MOOSE-GROUND 



21 I 



although not carrying a pair of horns remarkable for their 

 size. Their spread was 57 inches, and the total number of 

 points only 23. It was a gracefully shaped head, and one 

 with which I was satisfied for a beginning, although it was 



My first Bull Moose, Kenia Forest. 



a very small specimen for the Kenai Peninsula. The horns 

 had still small shreds of the velvet hanging from the tips, 

 and these had misled me into thinking the head to be larger 

 than it really was. 



Ivan and I skinned as much of the beast as we could 

 get at, but to turn over the body was more than we could 



