CRUST AND LAKE HUNTING. §21 
Anothet adventurer, more daring than the first, took up 
a position on the trunk of a fallen tree, almost touching 
the flanks of the animal wth his feet, and reaching over 
dropped a second rope upon its horns, and was proceeding 
tr:umphantly to give it a turn around the trunk, thinking 
they had it all safe now. The creature shook its head, and 
making a sudden plunge forward, jerked the men headfore- 
most from both rocky shelf and log, snapping their nooses. 
They fell against the hinder parts of the moose; but as those 
in front, seeing their danger, made a great clamor at the 
moment, the animal did not notice them; though, as it 
retreated back to its strong position, it trampled upon their 
prostrate forms with its hind feet. The fellows yelled to 
them to shoot, but as they had irritated the moose in front, it 
mad a dash at them again, and they crawled out considerably 
bruised. Not discouraged by any means, as yet, another 
of the party succeeded in getting hold of the end of the 
broken rope, and this was immediately secured to a limb 
of the fallen tree once more. 
They now thought they were certain to triumph, as they 
roped its horns more securely than before, and proceeded to 
throw slip-nooses among its feet, in the hope that it might 
step into them, and that they would then be able to throw it. 
It was very wary of the ropes. They thus caught one foot 
only, after worrying the whole day with the creature, and 
getting several of the party even more severely hurt. But 
when the hunter who had this rope, and who was standing 
lirectly in front of the infuriated animal, attempted to jerk 
the foot from under it, it made one tremendous surge at him, 
snapped the rope about its horns, and tossed him into the air 
some ten feet on its broad, snow-shoveling antlers—while the 
second hero of the ropes on the log had his legs jerked from 
under him, and fell as the first had fallen. There was a 
frightened scattering of the whole party this time in earnest, 
while the moose, with bristling sulkin:ss, retreated again to 
