THE CARIBOU. 93 
own satisfaction, but I fear not at all so to the general pub- 
lic. For myself, when I have formed a theory in reference 
to this animal’s antlers, and possibly nursed it for some 
time, I have had the misfortune or otherwise to kill a cari- 
bou that annihilated the pretty little structure I had built. 
Thus the horns here represented, although taken from life, 
must not be accepted as a stereotyped pattern of the whole 
family. 
