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draw water from the river on a sledge made for the purpose, but 

 despite its docihty, it was liable to give great trouble through 

 getting perfectly unmanageable at the season of its excitement. 



At the present time a half-breed Indian, who has a homestead in 

 the region of the Dead River in the State of Maine, employs a 

 moose for his farm-work. The animal has been completely 

 broken in for labour purposes, and when hitched to a sleigh travels 

 as fast as a good horse. He is kept in an enclosure surrounded 

 by a fence of ordinary height, and now and again the moose jumps 

 over it and disappears, to taste the sweets of liberty once more for a 

 few days ; but the half-breed does not appear to regard his absence 

 with any alarm, for the animal has never yet failed to return 

 sooner or later and submit to be harnessed. 



Captain Hardy, while in Halifax, kept a young bull-moose which 

 was so tame that he would come into the room and jump several 

 times over chairs, backwards and forwards, for a piece of bread. 

 His great delight was to have tobacco-smoke puffed in his face, 

 which would cause him to rub his head, with great satisfaction, 

 against the individual who would do it to him. It was at last 

 accidentally killed by being given an over-feed of turnips. 



