Sport in an Untouched Atnerican Wilderjiess 



depth of winter can make good use of 

 the meat. But in the region which is 

 the subject of this article, there is Httle 

 lumber, and so there are few lumbermen. 

 The degenerate Indians of the villages sel- 

 dom trouble themselves to hunt, and the 

 few moose killed by hunters are as nothing 

 compared with the young ones destroyed 

 by the bears. Bruin gets trapped, because 

 his coat will average twenty dollars to his 



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The Boy and the Moose-HeaU, 



captor. There are no wolves in this wil- 

 derness ; so the prospects for the moose are 

 getting better instead of worse. And if 



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